THE DOG-SHAPED MONKEYS— BABOON. 



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and bent on enjoying the beautiful, warm sunshine." 

 The Tribe My brother requested the com- 

 Protected by the mander of the fortress himself to 

 Government. set us r ight in regard to these 

 Monkeys and we received the following report from 

 him : " The number of Monkeys at present inhabit- 

 ing our mountain is eleven. As we have found t,hat 

 they have no trouble in finding sufficient nourish- 

 ment on the rocks, we do not feed them, but leave 

 them entirely alone. The guard of the signals as 

 well as the detectives watch over them, and see that 

 they are in no way molested or hunted. The guard 



of them, but last summer I saw as many as twenty- 

 five together, and I think that we may safely claim 

 as many as thirty. At this season they are not fre- 

 quently seen, -for food and water can be found in 

 plenty on the top of the hills. During the hot 

 summer lack of provision compels them to come 

 farther down, and then they cause considerable 

 damage in the gardens. In June or July of last year 

 there were about half a dozen young ones. The 

 adult male is of considerable size, being about three 

 feet high ; the largest females are also of good size, 

 but more slenderly built, and not so strong. The 



COMMON BABOON. The group of animals here depicted are often seen in captivity in Europe and the United States. They are true 



Dog-headed Baboons, and their home is in the West Coast of Africa, Abyssinia and the Nile farther northward, and in eastern Equatorial 

 Africa. They are large, and have hair of a uniform yellowish olive-green. This species is very strong and fierce when attacked, but the young 



are amiable and full of pleasing tricks. The playfulness of the little or 

 that are older. {Cyiwcephalus babitin.) 



keeps an account of them and as they always keep 

 together, he is soon made aware of an increase or a 

 death in the family. 



" Nobody knows how and when they got on the 

 rocks, and the most divergent opinions prevail about 

 it. Six or seven years ago their number was re- 

 duced to three ; then Sir William Codrington, fear- 

 ing they might die out, imported three or four from 

 Tangier, and since then they have increased to the 

 number named." 



Lately this number has more than doubled itself. 

 We wrote a letter of inquiry, addressed to some 

 officer of the English garrison of Gibraltar, and 

 Captain C. S. Shepard was kind enough to answer 

 us, on the 18th of March, 1889, as follows : 



" It is hard to determine exactly the number of 

 our Monkeys. Day before yesterday I saw a dozen 



5 indicated in the picture, as well as the teasing propensities of those 



strongest male usually keeps a little aloof from the 

 band." According to these latest reports we may 

 rest assured that Europe's last Monkeys are not 

 going to die out just yet. 



THE BABOONS. 



The Baboons (Cynocepkalics) are one of the most 

 remarkable groups of the Monkey family, but are 

 by no means an attractive or pleasing one. We find 

 its members to be the ugliest, rudest, coarsest and 

 most repulsive representatives of the Monkey tribe. 

 We may say that the Baboon stands in the lowest 

 degree of development of the entire Monkey world. 

 All the nobler shapes are effaced, and all the nobler 

 qualities of the mind are drowned in the grossest 

 passions. 



