PAPIO 131 



Papio riibescens Temm., Esquis. Zool., 1853, p. 39; Schleg., Mus. 



Pays-Bas, Simiae, 1876, p. 128. 

 Papio olivaceus Reichenb., Vollstand. Naturg. Affen, 1862, p. 150^ 



GUINEA BABOON. 



Type locality. "I'Afrique." 



Geogr. Distr. Senegal to Angola, West Africa. 



Gent. Char. Size small ; face, ears, palms and soles of feet naked : 

 tail shorter than body ; ears quadrangular. 



Color. Face, ears, palms of hands, and soles of feet black ; upper 

 eyelids white ; head and upper parts, limbs and feet, tawny ochraceous, 

 giving a general reddish appearance to the entire animal ; under parts 

 and inner side of limbs brownish yellow ; hands blackish, hairs black 

 with yellow tips ; tail at base like back, remainder paler. Callosities 

 red. 



Measurements. Skull: total length, 178; occipito-nasal length, 

 146; Hensel, 129; zygomatic width, 110; intertemporal width, 59; 

 palatal length, 74; breadth of braincase, 79; median length of nasals. 

 37; length of upper molar series, 49; length of mandible, 123; length 

 of lower molar series, 56. Adult, but not old skull. 



The type of C. choras Ogilby, is in the Collection of the British 

 Museum and has been examined. It is somewhat lighter than typical 

 P. PAPIO but not so red, but it is probable that the specimen may have 

 faded somewhat in the sixty years it has been in the Museum. There 

 is nothing in its coloration to warrant its separation from typical P. 



PAPIO. 



The type of P. rubescens Temm., is in the Leyden Museum. It is 

 an immature animal of a paler or more rusty red than P. papio 

 (Desm.), the hairs on the shoulders and back are very long and barred 

 with black, while the cheeks are covered with white hairs. Another 

 specimen, also young, from the Gold Coast, and labelled P. rubescens, 

 is much darker, more the color of P. papio. In view of their 

 immaturity, the dissimilarity in color between the speciniens, and their 

 locality being the same as P. papio, I should refer these examples to 

 that species, as they present no characters that would separate them 

 from it. 



The type of C. olivaceus I. Geoflfroy, is in the Paris Museum and 

 the following is a description of it. 



Color. Entire body and hind limbs mixed blackish brown and 

 tawny ochraceous ; the hairs with a strong reddish tinge, being dark 

 brown at base, and ringed with black and tawny ochraceous ; top of 

 head yellowish brown ; nape and hind neck like body ; whiskers silvery 



