78 THE DRILL 
The name “ Maimon,” which is applied to the Mandrill, is most appropriate. It is a 
Greek word, signifying a hobgoblin, and is therefore peculiarly applicable to so uncanny a 
looking animal. 
The DRILL, co-native with the Mandrill, of the coast of Guinea, somewhat resembles 
the female or-young male mandrill, and is not of quite so savage and grotesque an aspect 
as that animal. 
Its cheek-bones are not nearly so protuberant as those of the mandrill’s, nor is its skin 
so brilhantly coloured. The upper parts of the body are greener than those of the 
mandrill, the yellow rings in the hair being more frequent. Its face and ears are of a 
light polished black, and the palms of the hands and feet are devoid of hair, and of a 
coppery tinge. 
Formerly the Drill was thought to be only a young mandrill, and was so named. But 
the fact that even after their second dentition, the male Drills do not put on the furrowed 
THE DRILL.—Papio Leucopheus. 
cheek-bones, or the bright colouring that distineuishes the mandrill, is sufficient to prove 
that it is a distinct species. 
Little is known of its habits when in a state of nature, as it has probably been con- 
founded with the mandrill, and its deeds narrated as if they belonged to the last-named 
annnal. 
It is a frequent visitor to England, and lives in tolerably good health. As far as is 
known, it is much ke the mandrill and other baboons in temper, being quiet and docile 
when young, but subsiding into morose apathy as it becomes older. 
The little stumpy tail is very like that of the mandrill, and is covered with short and 
stiff hair. Its leneth is not more than two inches even in a full-grown male. The Drill 
is always a smaller animal than the mandrill, and the female much smaller than the male, 
from whom she differs also in the comparative shortness of her head, and the generally 
paler tint of her fur. 
