THE MALAYAN BABOONS. 28 1 



described below ; the characters of the genus being thus, per- 

 force, the same as those of the species. 



THE CELEBEAN BLACK BABOON. CYNOPITHECUS NIGER. 



Cynoccphali/s niger, Desm., Mamm., p. 534 (1820). 



Macacus niger^ Bennett, Gard. and Menag. Zool. Soc, p. 1S9, 



with figure (1830); Schl, Mus. Pays Bas, vii., p. 119 



(1876). 

 Cynopithecus niger, Is. Geoffr., in Belanger's Voyage, p. 66 



(1834); Lesson, Quadrum., p. loi (1840); Gray, Cat. 



Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 2^^ (1870)- 

 Papio niger et P. mgresce?is, Temm., Possess. Neerl. Ind., iii., 



p. Ill (1847). 

 Cynopithecus nigtr^ vel nigrescens^ Wagner in Schreb., Siiugeth. 



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 eye?, 

 not extending to the end of the muzzle, but leaving a broad 

 upper lip ; nostrils, with a long and broad partition between 

 them, directtd downwards and outwards — a character seen in 

 the genus Macacus, and distinguishing this genus from the true 

 Baboons {Cynocephalus) ; 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 uf the limbs shorter. 



