MAMMALIA. PRIMATES. Baboons. Gi 



which is of a violet colour, fhines through a thin covering of hair ; the buttocks have naked pro- 

 jecting callofities of a blood red colour ; the middle of the belly is naked longitudinally, and of a 

 blood red colour; the tail is very fhort ; the claws of the fingers and toes are lharpifh and compref- 

 fed; thofe on the thumbs and great toes are flat and rounded. — I fufpeft that this is the fame fpe- 

 cies with the Mandril, or Papio maimon, and that the pyramidal tuft on the fore head is the effect 

 of art, for the purpofe of impoiition. — T. 



[5 5. Mandri!. — 10. S. Papio Maimon. 7. 



Has a fhort tail, and a thin beard on the chin ; the cheeks are blue, and ftriped ; and 

 the buttocks are naked. 



Cynocephalus. Gefner, quad. 93. t. 93. Cluf. exot. 370. Jonfh quad. t. 59. f. 4. — Dog- 

 faced cercopithecus, having long hair on the fore part of the body, and the nofe violet coloured 

 and naked. Brill*, quad. 214. — Mandril, or ribbed nofe baboon. Sm. Buff. viii. 131. pi. eclix. 

 eclx. eclxi. — Rib-nofed baboon. Penn. H. of Q^n. 77 Simia maimon. Schrebcr, i. 74. tab. vii. 



Inhabits Guinea. — Refembles the former in its blue, ribbed nofe, but wants the tuft of hair on 

 the fore head. It is an ugly and difgufting animal, '■tof a fullen deformed afpect, with a fquat body, 

 very large head, long muzzle, and flat nofe, perpetually diftilling a nafty fnot, which, with his 

 tongue, he licks into his mouth. It has cheek-pouches, and callofities on the buttocks, which are 

 of a blood red colour; the anus is confpicuous, and placed very high; the tail is not above two or 

 three inches long ; the tulks are much thicker and longer than in man ; the muzzle is very thick, 

 very long, and furrowed on e^ch fide with deep longitudinal ribs or wrinkles; the face is naked, 

 and of a bluifh or violet colour ; the ears, palms of the hands, and foles of the feet are naked ; the 

 hair is long, reddifh brown on the body, and gray on the breaft and belly: This fpecies walks of- 

 tener erect than on four feet ; and, when erect, is from four to four and a half feet high, fome in- 

 dividuals or varieties being ftill larger : The females menftruate : It is larger, and perhaps ftronger, 

 than the great baboon, or Papio fphinx, but more peaceable, and lefs ferocious; is found on the Gold 

 Coaft of Guinea, and other fouthern parts of Africa, where it is called Boggo by the negroes ; it weeps 

 and groans like mankind, and has a violent paflion for women, whom it frequently attacks, and 

 forces, when at a diftance from relief. 



16 6. Hoggifn Baboon. — 11. S. Papio porcaria. 48. 



Has a fhort tail, and coloured buttocks ; the head is like that of a hog, with a naked 

 fnout ; the body is of an olive brown colour ; the nails are fharp and compreffed. 

 Bodaert. Naturf. 22. p. 17. t. 1. 2. 

 K£/fom5i)xo5. Ariftotelis, 



Inhabits Africa, and is about three feet and a half high when ftanding erect. — This, in all pro- 

 bability, is the fame animal with the hog-faced ape, adopted from Pennant as the eighth fpecies of 

 the fub-genus ape in this edition. — T. 



J 7 7. Wood Baboon. — S. Papio fylvicola. 



The face, hands, and feet, are naked, black, and fmooth, with white nails. 



Wood baboon. Penn. H. of Q\_n. 78. tab. xix. — Leverian muf. 



Inhabits 



