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APES, MONKEYS, AND LEMURS 



profile sloping almost uninterruptedly upwards from the muzzle to the occiput. The 

 nose, instead of projecting in front of the upper lip, as in the sacred baboon, is 

 somewhat truncated ; while the projecting eyebrows and deeply sunk eyes commu- 

 nicate a forbidding expression to the whole countenance. The tubercular swellings 

 on either side of the muzzle are supported on ridges arising from the swollen bones 

 of this part of the skull, and are themselves almost the size of a man's fist. As a 

 whole, they are somewhat sausage shaped, and are marked with a series of promi- 



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nent transversely disposed ribs of light blue, with deep purple in the grooves, while 

 the middle line and the tip of the nose are scarlet. The contrast between such bril- 

 liant colors and the general hue of the fur and the hazel eyes is most marked. The 

 stump of a tail, which, as we have seen, is naked on the under side, is carried erect 

 and bent over the back somewhat after the manner of that of a pug dog. The gen- 

 eral color of the fur is a blackish-olive, darker on the crown of the head, the middle 



