THE BABOONS. 



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Characters Nearly allied to T. gelada, but distinguished by its 

 darker colour, the flesh-coloured ring round the eyes, and the 

 two naked spots on the chest at the base of the neck, surrounded 

 by white hairs, extending to the inner side of the arm. 



Face naked, the chin thinly haired, the nose-pad situated 

 behind the blunt and broad end of the muzzle ; eyes small, set 

 close together, deep sunk beneath the prominent overhanging 

 frontal ridges ; ears small ; sides of the head entirely covered 

 with woolly hair ; mane long, soft, and thick. Length of body, 

 53 inches; tail, 26 inches. 



Face black, but with a broad flesh-coloured ring round each 

 eye ; scanty hairs on the chin white ; top of head and back 

 dark brown ; mane on fore-neck and shoulders, arms, and 

 hind part of the hands pure black ; sides of head and neck, 

 rump, and tail dirty ochre ; naked spots on breast dark flesh- 

 coloured, more vivid in passion ; breast and inner side of 

 fore-arm, and middle of chest white; rest of under surface 

 pale brown. Callosities bluish-grey. 



Female and Young. Almost uniform fulvous, but the mane less 

 marked. 



Distribution. North-east Africa ; on the eastern boundary of 

 Abyssinia, near the sources of the Takazze river, on the con- 

 fines of the Galla country. Dr. Blanford observed it also near 

 Magdala. 



Habits. This large and "stately" Baboon, known to the 

 natives as " Tokur-Sinjero " (or Black Baboon), lives in large 

 troops in the high mountains of Abyssinia, at an altitude of 

 from 6,000 to 10,000 feet. It is seldom seen among trees, but 

 generally in open plains, or in inaccessible .rocky cliffs, from 

 which it hurls stones on anyone who dares to approach. 



