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the general aspect of the baboon. It is short, set high on the back, and 
curved upwards in a manner that is most singular, not to say ludicrous, in 
the living animals, and conspicuously noticeable in the skeleton. ; 
It is a very common animal in its own country, but on account of its great 
strength, cunning, and ferocity, is not so often captured as might be expected. 
Even when a specimen is made prisoner, it is generally a very young one, 
which soon loses in captivity the individuality of its being, and learns to 
accommodate itself to the altered circumstances among which it is placed. 
ANOTHER well-known species of the Dog-headed Baboons is the PAPION, 
an animal of rather a more : 
refined aspect than the 
Chacma, or, more pro- 
perly speaking, not quite 
so brutal. 
The face, although un- 
attractive enough, is yet 
not so repulsive as that 
of the Chacma, and the 
colours are rather more 
bright than those of that 
animal. 
Great reverence was paid 
to these creatures, and 
specially to certain selected 
individuals which were fur- 
nished with a safe home 
in or near their temples, 
liberally fed while living, 
and honourably embalmed 
when dead. Many mum- 
mied forms of these ba- 
boons have been found in 
the temple caves of Egypt, 
swathed, and spiced, and 
adorned, just as if they 
had been human beings. 
Some authors say that 
the Thoth Baboon was an 
object of worship among the Egyptians, but hardly with sufficient reason. 
Various animal forms were used as visible living emblems of the attributes 
of deity and the qualities of the human intellect, but were no more objects 
of idolatrous worship than the lion of England or the eagle of America. 
The fur of the Papion is of a chestnut colour; in some parts fading intoa 
sober fawn, and in others warmed with a wash of ruddy bay. The paws are 
darker than the rest of the body. When young, it is of a lighter hue, and 
deepens in colour until it reaches its full age. In the prime of existence its 
colours are the lightest, but as years begin to lay their burden on the animal, 
the hairs begin to be flecked with a slight grizzle, and, in process of time, the 
snows of age descend liberally, and whiten the whole fur with hoary hairs. 
THE PAPION.—(Cynocephalus Sphinx.) 
AMERICAN MONKEYS. 
WE have now taken a rapid survey of the varied forms which the Quadru- 
mana of the Old World assume; forms so diversified that there hardly 
seems to be scope for further modifications. Yet the prolific power of nature 
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