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the nose. General colour of fur on back, sides of body, and 

 outer side of limbs olive-green ; on the under side of the body 

 and inner side of the limbs light yellowish-green; breast, throat, 

 and under part of chin silvery-grey ; whiskers silvery-grey ; ears, 

 palms of hands, and soles of feet dark brown ; callosities flesh- 

 coloured ; the surrounding naked parts purple-brown. 



Distribution Abyssinia. 



Habits Little or nothing is known of this species. It was 

 obtained in Abyssinia by Dr. Riippell. A specimen was ex- 

 hibited alive, however, in the Zoological Gardens of London 

 in 1843. 



VIII. THE EAST AFRICAN BABOON. PAPIO IBEANUS. 



Papio thoth ibeanus, Old field Thomas, Ann. and Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., xi., p. 46 (1893). 



Distribution. Lamu, East Africa. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas has described this sub-species, which 

 has remarkably coarse and shaggy fur all over the body, longer 

 than in the typical form, and of a blackish and dull tawny 

 white, without any of its brighter yellow ; the hairs on the 

 crown of the head broadly ringed with black ; the chin and 

 throat whitish ; hairs of the chest ringed with black and white ; 

 the belly black and dull fawn ; the inner side of the fore- 

 limbs like the chest, and of the hind-limbs clearer and less 

 ringed fawn-colour. Length of the body, 33^ inches ; of the 

 tail 24 inches. 



IX. THE GUINEA BABOON. PAPIO SPHINX. 



Le papion, F. Cuvier, Mamm., vol. i., livr. 6 (<?); livr. 7 ( ? ), 



Hist. Nat. (1819). 

 Papio sphinx, Geoffr., Ann. Mus., xix., p. 103 (1812); Schl., 



Mus. Pays Bas, vii., p. 127 (1876). 



