BABOOXS. 



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of Professor Huxley, the name mandrill seems to signify a man-like baboon ; the 

 term drill being an. old English word of which one meaning denotes a baboon 

 or ape. 



The limbs of the mandrill are characterised by their relative shortness and 

 powerful build, and in correlation with these the form of the body is likewise 

 powerful and robust. The ugly and massive head has scarcely any distinct forehead, 

 the profile sloping almost uninterruptedly upwards from the muzzle to the occiput. 



THE MANDRILL (fa nat size). 



The nose, instead of projecting in front of the upper lip, as in the sacred baboon, is 

 somewhat truncated ; while the projecting eyebrows and deeply sunk eyes com- 

 municate a forbidding expression to the whole countenance. The tubercular 

 swellings on either side of the muzzle are supported on ridges arising from the 

 swollen bones of this part of the skull, and are themselves almost the size of a man's 

 fist. As a whole, they are somewhat sausage-shaped, and are marked with a series 

 of prominent transversely- disposed ribs of light blue, with deep purple in the 

 grooves, while the middle line and the tip of the nose are scarlet. The contrast 



