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care of the young, the smaller Monkeys amusing themselves by 
gambolling about.” The Arabian Baboon climbs heavily, but 
when mo6ving quickly on the ground has a regular steady 
gallop. 
‘This is the Sacred Monkey of the ancient Egyptians, and 
its likeness is often found engraved on their various temples 
and monoliths. ‘The Cynocephalus Ape,” as Sir Gardner 
Wilkinson writes, “which was particularly sacred to Thoth, 
held a conspicuous place among the sacred animals of Egypt, 
being worshipped as the type of the God of Letters, and of 
the Moon, which was one of the characters of Thoth. 
Sometimes a Cynocephalus placed on a throne as a god, holds a 
sacred Ibis in his hand; and in the judgment-scenes of the 
dead it frequently occurs, seated on the summit of a balance, 
as the emblem of Thoth, who had an important office on that 
occasion, and registered the account of the actions of the 
deceased. ‘The place where this animal was particularly sacred 
was Hermopolis, the city of Thoth. In the necropolis of the 
capital of Upper Egypt, a particular spot was set apart as the 
cemetery of the Sacred Apes.” 
XI. LANGHELD’S BABOON. PAPIO LANGHELDI. 
Cynocephalus langheldi, Matschie, S. B. Ges. Nat. Freunde, 
Berlin; 1892, p. 233: 
Characters.— Hair of back long and coarse ; that of the hinder 
quarters shorter. Length of body, 29% inches; of tail, 18 
inches. 
General colour, dirty olive-grey—the hairs brown at the 
base, then yellowish-grey, ringed further up with black and yel- 
lowish-grey and tipped with black; the long and coarse hair 
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