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Genl. Char. Size small : pits on sides of upper jaw very long; tail 

 unicolor. 



Color. General color of top of head and body ochraceous buff, 

 the hairs being purplish gray with a subterminal ochraceous band and ' 

 black tip. The purplish gray of the hairs gives a darkish hue to the 

 pelage, but it is overlaid by the ochraceous bands, which makes it 

 difficult to say which is the dominant color ; sides of head and neck 

 yellowish gray grading into whitish on the throat ; arms ochraceous 

 buff lighter than upper parts; legs like upper parts but hair without 

 black tips ; hands and feet blackish brown ; under parts grayish brown 

 on chest, abdomen like back ; tail like back at base, remainder wood 

 brown unicolor. Ex type, an immature specimen, Berlin Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, 1,030; tail, 460. Skull of adult: 

 total length, 179; Hensel, 125; intertemporal width, 55; zygomatic 

 •width. 111; length of nasals, 70; length of upper canines, 36; length 

 of upper tooth row, 49; length of mandible, 134; length of lower tooth 

 row, 63. 



This is quite a small baboon, characterized by its unicolor tail. 



Papio steepitus Elliot. 



Papio strepitus Elliot, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th Sen, II, 1907, 

 p. 499. 



Type locality. Fort Johnston, Nyassaland, S. E. Africa. Type 

 in British Museum. 



Genl. Char. Size large, exceeding the dimensions of P. pruinosus ; 

 hair very long, loose ; face partly naked ; braincase about two thirds 

 the length of facial region ; nasals only slightly raised above rostrum, 

 wide anteriorly ; pit on side of upper jaw, long and deep ; palate narrow, 

 of nearly equal width for its entire length ; tooth rows straight. 



Color. Forehead mixed pale yellow and black; crown and nape 

 dull tawny ochraceous, center of crown darker, the hairs ringed with 

 dull tawny ochraceous and black, those on sides Prout's brown at base, 

 remainder tawny ochraceous ; the appearance of the crown and nape is 

 more reddish than yellow, with a darker central portion ; sides of head 

 below ears buff ; lower part of neck to middle of back purplish drab 

 and ochraceous buff, the base of hairs purplish drab, the rest ringed 

 with black and ochraceous buff, some of them tawny ochraceous, and 

 tipped with black. The purplish drab of the base of hairs dominates 

 the other colors and gives a kind of dark patch to this part of the back ; 

 on the shoulders is a patch of hairs buff at their roots, graduating to 

 cream buff at the tips, not ringed ; lower part of back paler than the 



