i26 histokV of 



some years ago. It seemed tame, but stupid, and had a method 

 of opening its mouth and blowing at such as came too near. 



The WANDEROW is a baboon rather less than the former, with 

 the body less compact and muscular, and the hinder parts seem- 

 ingly more feeble. The tail is from seven to eight inches long; 

 the muzzle is prominent, as in the rest of this kind ; but what 

 particularly distinguishes it, is a large long white head of hair, 

 together with a monstrous white beard, coarse, rough, and de- 

 scending ; the colour of the rest of the body being brown or 

 black. As to the rest, in its savage state, it is equally fierce 

 with the others ; but, with a proper education, it seems more 

 tractable than most of its kind, and is chiefly seen in the woods 

 of Ceylon and Malabar.* 



The MAiMON of BufTon which Edwards calls the pigtail, is 

 the last of the baboons, and in size rather approaches the monkey, 

 being no larger than a cat. Its chief distinction, besides its pro- 

 minent muzzle, like a baboon, is in the tail, which is about five 

 or six inches long, and curled up like that of a hog ; from which 

 circumstance, peculiar to this animal, our English naturalists 

 gave it the name. It is a native of Sumatra, and does not well 

 endure the rigours of our climate. Edwards, however, kept 

 one of them a year in London ; and another of them happening 

 at the same time to be exposed in a show of beasts, he brought 

 the two exiles together, to see if they would claim or acknow- 

 ledge their kindred. The moment they came into each other's 

 presence, they testified their mutual satisfaction, and seemed 

 quite transported at the interview, f 



» The Wanderoos belong to that group of the Monkey tribes of the Old 

 World which has received its uame from the Macaque, as being probably 

 the most common of all the species that compose it. Tliis group or genus ia 

 distinguished by a blunt and elongated muzzle, forming a facial angle ol 

 from 400 to 45"; by the prominence of the superciliary crests, which over- 

 hang the eyes and give a peculiar expression to the physioguomy ; by the 

 retrocession of the forehead above ; and by the comparative shortness of 

 the tail, which is rarely equal in length to the body, but is in some species 

 nearly reduced to the dwarfishness of a pig- tail, and in one or two others 

 is nothing more than a mere tubercle. In their manners there is consider, 

 able variety, dependent in a great degree upon their age, and the society to 

 which they have been accustomed. 



+ The Dog-Faced Baboon.— I'hey are betwixt four and five feet high ; 

 their head and face greatly resemble that of a dog ; the hair is of a dusky 

 colour, and peculiarly long and shaggy, as far as the waist, but short on the 

 hinder parts. The face is naked, and the ears are pointed and concealed iu 



