THE MALAYAN BABOONS. 281 
described below ; the characters of the genus being thus, per- 
force, the same as those of the species. 
THE CELEBEAN BLACK BABOON. CYNOPITHECUS NIGER. 
Cynocephalus niger, Desm., Mamm., p. 534 (1820). 
Macacus niger, Bennett, Gard. and Menag. Zool. Soc., p. 189, 
with figure (1830); Schl, Mus. Pays Bas, vii., p. 119 
(1876). 
Cynopithecus niger, Is. Geoffr., in Bélanger’s Voyage, p. 66 
(1834); Lesson, Quadrum., p. ror (1840); Gray, Cat. 
Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 33 (1870). 
Papio niger et P. nigrescens, Temm., Possess. Néerl. Ind., iii., 
Pp: Ler (1347). 
Cynopithecus niger, vel nigrescens, Wagner in Schreb., Siugeth. 
Suppl, v.,; p. 61, tab. 6 (1855). 
Cynopithecus nigrescens, Wallace, Malay Arch., i., p. 432 (1869). 
Characters.— About the size of a Spaniel; head oblong ; face 
very elongated, naked ; neck, hands, and feet also naked ; nose 
triangular, the sides erect, flattened behind nearly to the eyes, 
not extending to the end of the muzzle, but leaving a broad 
upper lip; nostrils, with a long and broad partition between 
them, directed downwards and outwards—a character seen in 
the genus AZacacus, and distinguishing this genus from the true 
_ Baboons (Cyzocephalus) ; cheek-swellings parallel to the nose, 
distinct, but not conspicuously large ; supra-orbital ridges very 
conspicuous ; cheek-pouches large ; tail rudimentary, reduced 
to a fleshy tubercle, one inch long, and hardly visible. Length. 
24 inches. 
Fur long and woolly over the body ; especially long on the 
top of the head, forming a crest ; hair of the limbs shorter. 
