6o MAMMALIA. PRIMATES. Baboons. 



Inhabits India. — The head is roundiih, with a projecting muzzle, and roundifh naked ears ; the 

 hair on the body is yellow, tipt with black ; the face is brown, and almoft naked, having only a few 

 fcattered hairs ; the nails are all compreffed and oblong, except on the thumbs and great toes, the 

 nails of which refemble man ; the tail is very fhort, being hardly an inch long ; the body is about 

 the fize of a cat. — It is uncertain if this animal fhould be considered as a diftinct fpecies, or only as 

 a variety of the Simla fciurea ? — Gmel. 



J 3 3, Great Baboon. — 8. S. Papio Sphinx. 6. 



The tail is fhort ; the mouth is furnifhed with whifkers ; the nails are fharp pointed 

 and narrow.} and the buttocks are naked. 



Papio. Gefner, quad. 252. t. 253. Aldrov. dig. 260. Jonft. quad. 145. t. 61. f. 1. Raj. 

 quad. 158. Brill", quad. 19.2. — Papion. Sm. Burl', viii. 121. pi. cclvii. — Simia fphinx. Schreber, 

 i, 80. tab. vi. — Great baboon. Pen. H. of Q;_n. 76. pi. xvii. and xviii. 



Inhabits Borneo, according to Gmelin ; BufFon and Pennant fay the hotter parts of Africa. — A 

 ftrong, fierce, and libidinous animal, very apt to offer violence to women. The head is oblong, and 

 refembles that of a dog, but more obtufe; the tail is fhort and erect; the buttocks are naked, and 

 of a blood red colour ; the cheeks have pouches ; and there are large naked callofities on the but- 

 tocks, of a blood red colour edged with purple ; the muzzle is thick and long ; the ears are naked ; 

 the body is marly and contracted, with thick, fhort, ftrong limbs ; the male parts are large, naked, 

 flelh-coloured, and pendulous ; the hair is long, bufhy, of a reddifh brown colour, and pretty uni- 

 form over the whole body. It walks oftener on all fours than erect ; is from three to four feet 

 high when ftanding on the hind feet. This is a brilk, ferocious, difobedient, mifchievous, and nafty 

 animal ; and infolently falacious, even to the ufe of manuftupration. The female menftruates, and 

 brings only one young at a time, which ihe carries in her arms fixed to the pap. It lives chiefly on 

 fruits, roots, and feeds, gathering in crowds to rob gardens and cultivated lands, which it does with 

 great dexterity. — The Count de BufFon confiders this and the former fpecies as only varieties of one 

 fpecies ; which he thinks contains many varieties of different fizes, but agreeing in their general 

 figure and manners. The individual feen by Mr Pennant, and referred by him to this fpecies of 

 the Linnsean fyftern, was five feet high. — T. 



14 4. Mantegar. — 9. S. Papio mormon. 36. 



Has a fhort tail, and is thinly bearded ; the cheeks are tumid, naked, of a bright blue 

 colour, and obliquely furrowed ; the buttocks are naked, and of a blood-red colour. 



Alftroemer, Act. Holm. 1766, vol. 27. p. 138. 



Short tailed, and bearded ape, fimia, having fharp claws, and the top of the head furmounted 

 with an erect tuft of hair, like a mitre. Kramer, anim. auftral. 310 — Mantegar. Phil. Tranf. 



n. 290. — Chloras. Breflauer Natur. Kunftgefch. xv. Verf. 177 Tufted ape. Penn. H. of C^_ 



p. 174. pi. xvi. f. 2. — Simia mormon. Schreber. i. 65. tab. viii. 



Inhabits India. — The forehead is crowned with an erect pyramidal tuft of grey hair ; the fnout 

 is long and naked, with the nofe of a blood-red colour ; the cheeks are naked, furrowed obliquely, 

 and of a blue colour; the hair on the throat, and under part of the neck, is yellowlfh, gray on the 

 upper part of the neck, brownifh gray on the back, and whitifb. on the belly; on the loins the ikin, 



which 



