THE DRILL BABOON 7 



Zoological Gardens at Manchester. Imported when 

 six months old, and received at the Gardens in 

 May, 1895, this Nestor has become almost a classical 

 specimen; he has been repeatedly photographed, 

 and was figured with some very interesting letter- 

 press in the " Field" for March 18, 1905. The 

 present writer has repeatedly studied this individual, 

 probably by far the finest specimen that has ever 

 been seen in captivity. The beast has long ago 

 become completely acclimatised, and on January 12, 

 1 906, was walking about his open-air cage regardless 

 of the cold east wind. When he shook himself his 

 ample shoulders quivered in their sheeting of muscle. 

 He was fond of perching on a branch with all four 

 feet approximated in chamois fashion, his minute 

 eyes jerking under their ample brows with a quick 

 movement as if worked by a spring. He ran well 

 though jerkily on all fours baboon fashion his silly 

 little tail wagging to and fro as he did so, and traversed 

 a branch with a remarkable lightness hardly to be 

 expected of such an animal. At the time of writing 

 (July 15, 1907) this veteran continues in splendid 

 health, a living triumph of the open-air treatment, 

 twelve years old. Some few years ago there was 

 another remarkably large drill in the same collection. 

 So much for examples in captivity; the home life of 

 the drill may now be considered. 



Scene : An outlying spur of a range of mountains 

 composed of red conglomerate, watered at the base 



