GREY BABOON. MANDRILL. 



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of the Eastern coast of Africa, being found also along the opposite 

 shores of Arabia. It is the only species of this genus which 



FIG. 73 GREY BABOON. 



extends beyond the African continent ; and grows to the size of 

 a large pointer ; measuring upwards of four feet in height when 

 standing erect, and two feet and a half when in a sitting posture. 

 The head, neck, and front of the body are covered with long 

 shaggy hair ; whilst that on the hips, thighs, and legs, is short ; 

 and, when contrasted with the former, has the appearance of 

 having been clipped, so that the whole animal somewhat resem- 

 bles a shaved French poodle. The largest and most ferocious of 

 all the Baboons is the C. maimon, or Mandrill; the ordinary 

 height of which, when standing erect, is nearly the same as that 

 of a man ; and the head of which presents a strange mixture of 

 colours, as if it were painted for show. The body is thick and 

 extremely robust, the limbs short and powerful, the head is 

 large and almost deprived of forehead, the eyebrows remarkably 

 prominent, the eyes small and deeply sunk in the head, the 

 cheek-bones swollen to an enormous size, and forming projections 

 of the size of a man's fist on each side of the nose, which are 



