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THE MANDKILL. 



With such consummate art do these animals plan, and with such 

 admirable skill do they carry out their raids, that even the watchful 

 band of dogs is comparatively useless; and the cunning robbers 



The Chacma {Cynocephalus porcmnus). 



actually slip past the vigilant sentries without the stirring of a grass 

 blade or the rustling of a dried twig, to give notice to the open ears 

 of the wakeful but beguiled sentries. 



Few animals present a more grotesque mixture of fiintastic embellish- 

 ments and repulsive ferocity than the baboon which is known under 

 the name of Mandrill. 



The colors of the rainbow are emblazoned on the creature's form, 

 but always in the very spots where one would least expect to see them. 

 A bright azure glows, not in its " eyes of heavenly blue," but on each 

 side of its nose, where the snout is widely expanded, and swollen into 

 two enormous masses. The surfaces of these curious and very unpre- 

 possessing projections are deeply grooved, and the ridges are bedizened 

 with the cerulean tint above mentioned. Lines of brilliant scarlet 

 and deep purple alternate with the blue, and the extremity of the 

 muzzle blazes with a fiery red like Bardolph's nose. 



That all things should be equally balanced, the opposite end of the 



