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APES AND MONKEYS. 



This is rendered more probable by the fact that the animal is not found in Gilolo, 

 which is only separated from Batchian by a very narrow strait. The introduction 

 may have been very recent, as in a fertile and unoccupied island such an animal 

 would multiply rapidly." In its arboreal habits, and predilection for fruit, the 

 black ape is essentially a macaque, and not a baboon. 



THE GELADA BABOON. 

 Genus Theropithecus. 



The extraordinary-looking animal represented in the accompanying woodcut is 

 our first example of the group of baboons, or dog-faced monkeys, so called from the 



THE GELADA BABOON (\ nat. size). 



great prolongation of their muzzles, which far exceeds that obtaining in the black 

 ape, and gives to them an expression quite different from that of any other members 

 of the order. We reserve our remarks for the other peculiarities of the baboons till 



