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THE VARIEGATED BABOON. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Front Teeth in each jaw 4, placed near together. 



Canine Teeth folitary, longer than the others, diftant from the remaining 



teeth or grinders. 

 Grinders obtufe. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Sec. 



Short-tailed whifkered Baboon, bare behind, with pointed nails, and violet- 

 coloured loins. 



Great Baboon. Pennant, ^ladr. p. 173. 



Variegated Baboon. Naturalijl's Mijcellany, fl. 48. 



FR O M a confufion and mifapplication of fynonyms, which, in fo extenfive 

 a work as that of the Syftema Naturas of Linnaeus, feems almoft un- 

 avoidable, it has happened that the fpecies of Baboon here reprefented has 

 been confounded with one really different, though very much refembling it. 

 The fpecies alluded to is the Simla Maimon of Linn£eus, which, except in 

 fize and vivid colours, bears the higheft general refemblance to our prefent 

 animal. 



This 



