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for, after leaving the Bonnet Macaque, we come to the Bengal, or 

 Rhesus, thence we follow on to the Pig-Tailed, already described, 

 and eventually, after making acquaintance with the Brown Stump- 

 Tailed Monkey, as representing the stump-tailed group of Macaques, 

 we come, last of all, to the Magot, or Barbary, Macaque, in which 

 the tail is totally absent. 



DUSKY GELADA BABOON, Three kinds of Baboons are repre- 

 sented in the illustrations, namely, the Dusky Gelada (Fig. 133), the 

 Guinea Baboon (Fig 134) and the Ibean Baboon (Fig. 135). Before 

 treating of these specifically, a few notes may be given of the 

 general characteristics of these curious members of the Monkey 

 tribe. 



Baboons are to be reckoned as the lowest of the Old World 

 Monkeys; they are for the most part big, powerful beasts of a 

 ferocious disposition ; they are quite gregarious, and give vent to 

 their feelings when alarmed or disturbed in no uncertain manner, 

 uttering barks, screams, and other noises of a peculiar kind. 



They possess Dog-like faces, with fore and hind limbs of almost 

 equal length ; long feet, and hair which is ringed or grizzled with 

 different colours. They are wary beasts, and do an immense amount 

 of damage not only in gardens and among growing crops, but also 

 to Sheep. They also feed upon fruit, insects and Lizards. They 

 chiefly resort to the ground, showing special preference for rocky 

 and barren hills, not being well adapted for climbing trees, although 

 sometimes frequenting the same. 



Baboons are confined to Africa and Arabia, and Darwin has 

 observed that they show their anger in two curious ways, namely, 

 by striking the ground with one hand, "like an angry man striking 

 the table with his fist," and "by opening their mouths widely as in 

 the act of yawning." The Dusky Gelada (Fig. 133) and the Gelada 

 Baboons are placed in a separate genus from the true Baboons 

 because they have "the nostrils placed on the side of the snout, 

 instead of being terminal and opening, Dog-like, on the blunt face 

 of the truncated nose." The first-named species inhabits North-East 

 Africa as well as "the eastern boundary of Abyssinia, near the 

 sources of the Takazze river, on the confines of the Galla country," 

 and has also been observed near Magdala. It is darker in colour 

 than the Gelada Baboon, hence its name of Dusky, and has a ring 

 of flesh-colour encircling the eyes, and two naked spots on the 

 chest, surrounded by white hairs which extend to the inner side of 



