THE MANDRILL.— y^/o Maivmn. 



Few animals present a more grotesqne mixture of fantastic embellishment and 

 repulsive ferocity than the bahoon which is known under the name of Mandrill. 



The colours of the rainbow are emblazoned on the creature's form, but always 

 in the very spots where one would least expect to see them. In the old male a 

 bright azure glows on each side of the nose, where the snout is wulely expanded, 

 and swollen into enormous masses. The sm-faces of these ciunous projections are 



