THE BABOONS. 



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care of the young, the smaller Monkeys amusing themselves by 

 gambolling about." The Arabian Baboon climbs heavily, but 

 when moving quickly on the ground has a regular steady 

 gallop. 



This is the Sacred Monkey of the ancient Egyptians, and 

 its likeness is often found engraved on their various temples 

 and monoliths. " The Cynocephalus Ape," as Sir Gardner 

 Wilkinson writes, " which was particularly sacred to Thoth, 

 held a conspicuous place among the sacred animals of Egypt, 

 being worshipped as the type of the God of Letters, and of 

 the Moon, which was one of the characters of Thoth. . . . 

 Sometimes a Cynocephalus placed on a throne as a god, holds a 

 sacred Ibis in his hand ; and in the judgment-scenes of the 

 dead it frequently occurs, seated on the summit of a balance, 

 as the emblem of Thoth, who had an important office on that 

 occasion, and registered the account of the actions of the 

 deceased. The place where this animal was particularly sacred 

 was Hermopolis, the city of Thoth. In the necropolis of the 

 capital of Upper Egypt, a particular spot was set apart as the 

 cemetery of the Sacred Apes." 



xi. LANGHELD'S BABOON. PAPIO LANGHELDI. 

 Cynocephalus langheldi, Matschie, S. B. Ges. Nat. Freunde. 



Berlin, 1892, p. 233. 



Characters. Hair of back long and coarse that of the hinder 

 quarters shorter. Length of body, 29^ inches; of tail, 18 

 inches. 



General colour, dirty olive-grey the hairs brown at the 

 base, then yellowish-grey, ringed further up with black and yel- 

 lowish-grey and tipped with black ; the long and coarse hair 



