42 THE NOMENCLATURE 



without bending either his body or limbs. This 

 ape is the third and laft to which the name ought 

 to be apphcd : In this genus, he conftltutes a fiu- 

 gular or monftrous Ipecies, Hke the race of thick - 

 legged men, faid to inhabit the ifland of Saint- 

 Thomas *. 



After the apes, another tribe of animals pre- 

 fent themfelves, to which we fhall give the "-e- 

 neric name of kihooii. To diftinguifh them 

 more accurately from the other kinds, let It be 

 remarked, that the baboon has a fliort tail, a 

 long face, a broad high muzzle, canine teeth, 

 proportionally larger than thofe of man, and 

 callofuies on his buttocks. By this definition, 

 we exclude from the baboon tribe all the apes 

 who have no tail ; all the monkeys, whofe talis 

 are as long or longer than their bodies ; and all 

 thofe who have thin, {harp pointed muzzles. 

 The ancients had no proper names forthefe ani- 

 mals. Ariftotle alone feems to have pointed out 

 one of the baboons under the name fun i a pore a- 

 ria t, though he has given but a very imperfeft 

 idea of the animal. The Italians firil called it 

 babuino ; th.e Germans, ^ji;/^;; ; the French, ba- 



bouin ; 



'* See the diilcrtation on ihe varieties ol" the Human Spe- 

 cies, Vol. III. of this work. 



f The denomination Simla Pciwirij, v.-hich is emj^loycj by 

 no other author but Ariftotle, was not improperly applied to 

 denote the baboon ; for I find in the works ol fevcral travel- 

 lers, who probably never read Ariftotle, the mu/.zle of the ba- 

 boon compared to the fnout of a hog. Befidcs, thefe animals 

 "have fome rcfcmblance in the form of their bodies. 



