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At Meru boma I succeeded in shooting a fine male Tumbili just as it intended 

 to make a raid in a shamba with. Pennisetum. 



Papio anubis subsp.? 



(Conf. Andersson: Zool. of Egypt. Mammalia p. 34.) 



Dark Baboons of the anuhis-gvo\np were seen by me for the first time at Mc 

 Naughtons farm not far from Nairobi, where they were said to do much damage in 

 the farm, and especially destroy the crop of sweet potatoes and potatoes. 



Similar Baboons were also common around Escarpment station where the Kikuy- 

 us complained of their ravages in the shambas. In both these places they occurred 

 in herds which took their refuge to thick bush and forest as soon as they suspected 

 any danger. The angry bark of the old males warned the herd to continue the flight. 

 Now and then a big male was seen at some safe distance ascend a small tree or a 

 stump to look round, but they always jumped down and ran away in good time. 

 They avoided very carefully to come within range for the shotgun which was the 

 only weapon I had with me then. They are also very tenacious of life, and although a 

 fullgrown male was shot full in the chest with SSG at either of these localities mentio- 

 ned both dragged themselves away in the bushes and were lost. On account of this 

 bad luck I cannot dare to say anything more about the Baboons of Nairobi and 

 Escarpment except that they certainly belong to this group of the genus, as was 

 proved by the general darkness of their fur, by their black faces, and purplish brown 

 colour of the naked parts around the callosities which details I observed with full 

 certainty with my field glass. It is, however, quite possible or even probable, that 

 they belong to the same race as the Baboons of the Guaso Nyiri district, described 

 below. 



Papio anubis furax (Elliot). 



Elliot: Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. 20 p. 499. 



In the work » Zoology of Egypt*, Mammalia, Anderson has proved that the 

 oldest specific name given to a blackfaced, dark » green » Baboon with purple-brown 

 callosities is anubis Fischer 1830. Of this group a number of so called species have 

 been described, but at least a part of these are only comparatively slight modifica- 

 tions of the anubis-tjTp^ and do not deserve, according to my opinion, to be regarded 

 as possessing higher rank than that of geographic subspecies. This is also the case with 

 some Baboons which I shot in the thornbush north of Guaso Nyiri. In their general 

 colouration some of them agree quite well with Anderson's plate (op. cit. PI. IV) 

 of Papio anubis from Abyssinia = Papio doguera Pucheran. The skulls of my spe- 

 cimens are, however, smaller than the skulls of Abyssinian Baboons according to the 

 measurements recorded by Anderson (1. c. p. 40). They agree with regard to their 



