T H E B A B O O N. 125 



Diftln^ii'ue CharaSIers of this Species. 



The baboon has cheek-pouches and large cal- 

 lofities on his buttocks, which are naked, and of a 

 blood colour. His tall is arched, and about fe- 

 ■ven or eight inches long. The canine teeth are 

 proportionally much longer and larger thanthofe 

 of man. The muzzle is very thick and long; 

 the ears are naked ; the body is mafly and con- 

 traded ; the members are thick and fhort ; the 

 organs of generation are naked and flefli-colour- 

 ed. The hair is long, bufhy, of a reddifh brown, 

 and pretty uniform over the whole body. He 

 walks oftener on four than on two feet. When 

 cre£t, he is three or four feet high. In this fpe- 

 cies, there feem to be races ftill larger, and others 

 much fmaller. We have given figures both of 

 the large and fmall kinds, in which we can per- 

 ceive no other difference than that of magnitude. 

 This difference, however, proceeds not from 

 age; for the fmall baboon appeared to be an a- 

 dult as well as the large. The females are fiib- 

 jed to the menftrual difcharge *. 



and, at this fignal, the whole troop fly off with aftonifliing 

 rapidity; Defcrip:. dx Cap de Bomie-efperance, par Kolbe, ton;. 3. 

 ! p. SI. 



* In Augufl i779» a male baboon, remarkable for its mag- 

 nitude, ftrength, and beautiful colours, was exhibited at Edin- 

 burgh. It was generally thought to be a variety of the man- 

 drill defcribed by Gefner, BufFon, Ray, Linnaeus, and Brif- 

 fon. But, as it differed from the mandrill of thefe authors in 



