MAMMALIA—BABOON 81 
ing itself by biting those who were near it, which obliged us to bind ow 
handkerchiefs over its head.” 
Tavernier tells us that some of the inhabitants of India adopt a ludicrous 
mode of avenging themselves on these monkeys, who not unfrequently 
attack the women who are going to market, and rob them of their provie 
sions. In an open space, near the retreat of the apes, they place five or 
six baskets of rice, forty or fifty yards asunder, and near the baskets, a num- 
ber of stout cudgels, each two feet in length. They then hide themselves, 
to watch for the result. Thinking that no one sees them, the apes hasten 
towards the baskets. Fora while they grin angrily at each other, then 
approach, then retire, and seem to dread coming to action for the prey. 
More daring than the males, the females at length advance to the baskets, 
and as they thrust in their heads to eat, the males on the one side rush 
forward to prevent them. This brings on a general engagement, and the 
cudgels are lustily plied till the weakest party is compelled to seek for 
gelter in the woods. The victors then quietly fall to, upon their hard- 
earned meal. 
THE PIG-FACED BABOON, 
Tuts animal, which is also called the chacma, is a native of Africa, and 
was formerly exceedingly troublesome to the settlers in the neighborhood 
1Cy ppialus porearius. ‘The genus Cynocephalus comprises Simiz, with four upper 
ud four lower incisors; two upper, and two lower canines; ten upper, and ten lower 
molars. Canines very strong; last molar of the under jaw on each side with a heel; 
head and muzzle much elongated; nostrils placed at the extremity, like the dog; facial 
angle, thirty to thirty-five degrees ; superciliary, sagittal, and occipital ridges, much de- 
veloped ; orbit hollow; maxillary bone much preduced; face wrinkled, with longitudinal 
striz ; ears flat and angular; cheek p,tiches; members of nearly equal length, and verv 
robust ; large callosities. 
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