62 MAMMALIA. PRIMATES. Baboons. 



Inhabits Guinea, where it is called man of the woods by the Englifh. — Has a long dog-like face, 

 covered with a fine grained, fmooth, gloffy, black fkin ; the hands and feet are naked, black, and 

 gloffy, like the face, and have white, flat, rounded nails; the body, head, limbs, and tail, are uni- 

 verfally covered with longifh clofe fet hair, elegantly mottled with black and tawny ; the ears are 

 almoft hid in the fur. It is about three feet high, when erect, and the tail is not three inches long. 



1 8 8. Yellow Baboon. — S. Papio variegata. 



Of a bright yellow colour, mottled with black ; having a long black naked face, and 

 the back of the hands are covered with hair. Leverian Muf. Penn. H. of (X_n. 79. 



This animal ftrongly refembles the wood baboon, except in fize, and having hairy hands : The 

 face is long, black, and naked; the ears are hid in the fur; over the eyes are feveral long dufky 

 hairs ; the backs of the hands are covered with hair. It is about two feet high, and is probably a 

 native of Africa ; but its place, age, and hiftory, are obfcure. 



19 9. Cinereous Baboon. — S. Papio cinerea, 



Has a dufky face, with a pale brown beard ; the body and limbs are of a cinereous 

 brown colour ; and the crown of the head is mottled with yellow. Leverian Muf. 

 Penn. H. of Q. n. 80. 



Its place and hiftory are uncertain; but it probably comes from Africa; and is about two feet 

 high. 



20 10. Blue- faced Baboon.— S. Papio Uvea. 



Has a bluhh face ; two very broad flat fore-teeth ; and a pale brown beard. Leverian 

 Muf. Penn. H. of Qwi. 81. 



This animal is about three feet high; has long hairs over the eyes; and a tuft of hair behind each 

 ear ; the hair is black, mixed with cinereous, and dull rufty brown. Its place and hiftory are un- 

 known. 



21 11. Brown Baboon. — S. Papio platypygos. 



Has a dirty white face, furrounded with fhort ftraight hair3 ; and a broad large muzzle. 

 Penn. H. of Q^_n. 82. pi. xx. fig. 2. 



Simia platypygos. Schreber, 8y. tab. v. B. 



The place and hiftory of this animal are uncertain. — The upper parts of the body are brown, and- 

 the under parts afh coloured; the tail is about four inches long, tapers to a point, is almoft bare, 

 and quite naked on its under part. — Mr Pennant refers to this fpecies an animal which he inferted 

 in the firft edition of his work on quadrupeds, under the name of New baboon. 



2.2 12. Creded Baboon. — S. Papio crijlata. 



Has very long and dimevelled hair on the crown of the head and cheeks. Leverian Muf. 



Penn. H. of. Q^n. 84. 



Inhabits 



