THE MALAYAN BABOONS. 2 8l 



described below ; the characters of the genus being thus, per- 

 force, the same as those of the species. 



THE CELEBEAN BLACK BABOON. CYNOPITHECUS NIGER. 



Cynocephalus niger, Desm., Mamm., p. 534 (1820). 



Macacus niger, Bennett, Gard. and Menag. Zool. Soc., p. 189, 



with figure (1830); Schl., Mus. Pays Bas, vii., p. 119 



(1876). 

 Cynopithecus niger, Is. Geoffr., in Belanger's Voyage, p. 66 



(1834); Lesson, Quadrum., p. 101 (1840); Gray, Cat. 



Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 33 (1870). 

 Fapio niger et P. nigrescent, Temm., Possess. Neerl. Ind., iii., 



p. in (1847). 

 Cynopithecus nigfr, vel nigrescens, Wagner in Schreb., Saugeth. 



Suppl., v., p. 61, tab. 6 (1855). 

 Cynopithecus nigrescens, Wallace, Malay Arch., i., p. 432 (1869). 



Characters. About the size of a Spaniel ; head oblong ; face 

 very elongated, naked ; neck, hands, and feet also naked ; nose 

 triangular, the sides erect, flattened behind nearly to the eyes, 

 not extending to the end of the muzzle, but leaving a broad 

 upper lip ; nostrils, with a long and broad partition between 

 them, directed downwards and outwards a character seen in 

 the genus Macacus, and distinguishing this genus from the true 

 Baboons (Cynocephalus) ; cheek-swellings parallel to the nose, 

 distinct, but not conspicuously large ; supra-orbital ridges very 

 conspicuous ; cheek-pouches large ; tail rudimentary, reduced 

 to a fleshy tubercle, one inch long, and hardly visible. Length. 

 24 inches. 



Fur long and woolly over the body ; especially long on the 

 top of the head, forming a crest ; hair of the limbs shorter. 



