172 MR. A. K. HAAGNER 



Tlie Rliodesian Baboon {Choiropithecus rlwdesiaey 

 Haagner) . 



By A. K. Haagner, F.Z.S.^ etc., Director, National 

 Zoological Gardens. 



Since publishing my preliminary description of the 

 Khodesian Baboon in the first number of the South Afri- 

 can Journal of Natural History (cf. Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 83, 

 plate III), I received a flat skin and skull from Mr. E. 

 Konschel, of Marandellas, Southern Rhodesia, which con- 

 firms my original opinion as to the novelty of the species. 

 The specimen received is evidently from an older animal 

 than the living example in the national collection, judg- 

 ing by the skull. The skin is darker along the spine and 

 on the hips. The mantle of long hair on the spinal column 

 is longer, the individual hairs ranging from 5 in. to a 

 foot in length. Length of flat skin from tip of snout to 

 root of tail, 3 feet 6 inches. Unfortunately the skin is a 

 very bad one, is Avithout the tail, and is impossible to 

 mount. 



I append some additional notes made from the skin, 

 some of which w^ere impossible to take from the living 

 animal without chloroforming it: — The hairs of the up- 

 per surface of the body are ringed with alternate pale 

 yellow and dark brown or black, the tips being dark. The 

 hair of the nape is 5 inches long and somewhat erect, 

 with long black tips making this region appear as a 

 blackish patch. Hairs of spinal column up to 12 inches 

 long, and also wdth long dark tips, forming a broad dark 

 band down the centre of the ba(;k. Lower surface of body 

 and inner sides of limbs very much paler than the sides, 

 and with a yellowish tinge, owing to the tips being pale 

 instead of dark. Throat and cheeks silvery whitC;, the 

 hair on the cheeks being short, thick and extending up- 

 wards in two bands until they nearly meet on the bridge 

 of the nose. This is a characteristic I have never seen 

 in any other species of baboon. Its heavy build — heavier 

 even than the Chacma— grizzled ochraceous-brown fur. 



