504 QUADEUMANA. 



The Baboons (Cynocephalus *) are the most brutal and 

 ferocious of the entire race, alike formidable for their size 

 and strength ; their limbs are short, and their usual mode 

 of progression is on all fours. In leaping they display con- 

 siderable agility, and frequent the wooded mountains and 

 wildest rocks. They feed on fruit and vegetables, and do 

 much damage by pillaging fields and gardens. The 

 Baboons nearly all inhabit Africa. To these belong 



The Mandrills (Fig. 484). These are amongst the most extra- 

 ordinary and hideous creatures imaginable ; their colour is a brown 

 grey, inclining to olive, their chin is furnished with a lemon-coloured 

 beard, their cheeks are of a brilliant blue, and their nose red, 

 especially near the top, where it is bright scarlet, while the hinder 

 part of the body is of a deep violet tint. These creatures attain to 

 a very large size, and are justly feared by the negroes of the Guinea 

 coast, where they are common. 



The Guenons or Long-tailed Monkeys (Cercopithecus^} 

 possess both callosities and cheek-pouches. The species 

 are very numerous, and very various in their size and 



U. 485. KAHAU. 



* KtW, KVVOS, kuon, kunos, a dog ; /ce^aA.^, cephale, the head- 

 dog-headed. 



t ntpKos, cercos, a tail; irierjKos, pithecos, a monltey. 



