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judged them to be either disagreeable or dangerous, and threw 

 them away." The food of the " Chacma," an Anghcised form 

 of the Hottentot name for this Baboon, consists of Lizards, 

 Scorpions, Centipedes, and all manner of insects ; birds' eggs, 

 gum, and honey are particularly relished by it. When these 

 are difficult to find, it searches for the bulbous roots of certain 

 liliaceous plants, of which it is very fond, and which it very in- 

 geniously disinters. As Le Vaillant has recorded of the same 

 individual to which we have just referred : " He laid hold of 

 the tuft of leaves with his teeth, and pressing his four paws 

 firmly against the earth, and drawing his head backwards, the 

 root generally followed; when this method did not succeed, he 

 seized the tuft as before, as close to the earth as he could, then 

 throwing his heels over his head, the root always yielded to 

 the jerk he gave it." 



V. THE YELLOW BABOON. PAPIO BABUIN. 



Le petit papion^ Buffon, Hist. Nat. Mamm., xiv., pi. 14(1766). 



Fapio cyjiocephahis, Geoffr., Ann. Mus., xix., p. 102 {1812); 

 Schl, Mus. Pays Bas, vii., p. 127 (1876). 



Cynocephalus babouin^ Desm., Mamm., p. 68 (1820); (Le 

 babouin), F. Cuvier, Mem. du Mus., iv., p. 419, pi. 19 

 (18 1 8); id. Hist. Nat. Mamm., livr. iv. (1819); Is. Geoffr., 

 Arch. Mus., ii., p. 579, pi. 34 (184 1) ; Gray, Cat. Monkeys 

 Brit. Mus., p. 35 (1870). 



Siinia cynocephala, Fischer, Synop. Mamm., p. 33 (1829V 



Cynocephalus aimbis, var. Wagner in Schreb., Saugeth., Suppl., 

 v., p. 63 (1855). 



Characters.— Adult Male. — Snout elongate, not surpassing the 

 upper lip ; nostrils large, round, separated by a longitudinal 

 furrow above ; tail shorter than the body, haired throughout its 



