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THE WOOD 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 stinders 



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Grinders obtuie. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Short-tailed ferruginous-brown Baboon, bare beliind, with black face, hand-\, 

 and feet. 



Wood Baboon. 



Pennant. Hiji: Sluadr. i. p. 176. 



THIS animal, which is one of tlie rareft of the genus, is of a 

 very confiderable fize, and of a robuft frame. Its height is about 

 three feet. Its general colour a fort of ferruginous greyifli-brown, owing to 

 the alternate rings of blackifh and ferruginous with which each individual hair 

 is marked, and which gives a Ibrt of fpeckled appearance, fimilar to that of 

 the Simla Mormon, or Variegated Baboon, already figured in the prefent 

 Work. 



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