﻿PAPIO 
  151 
  

  

  abdomen 
  black 
  ; 
  tail 
  gray, 
  tip 
  black 
  ; 
  legs 
  banded 
  with 
  black 
  and 
  buff, 
  

   giving 
  them 
  a 
  dark 
  chestnut 
  hue 
  ; 
  callosities 
  violet 
  ; 
  genital 
  and 
  anal 
  

   regions 
  scarlet, 
  beard 
  yellow. 
  

  

  Measurements. 
  Skull: 
  total 
  length, 
  233; 
  occipito-nasal 
  length, 
  

   183; 
  Hensel, 
  175; 
  zygomatic 
  width, 
  137.4; 
  intertemporal 
  width, 
  

   69.3; 
  palatal 
  length, 
  113.9; 
  breadth 
  of 
  braincase, 
  80.5; 
  median 
  

   length 
  of 
  nasals, 
  79.6; 
  length 
  of 
  upper 
  molar 
  series, 
  51.5; 
  length 
  of 
  

   mandible, 
  157; 
  length 
  of 
  lower 
  molar 
  series, 
  72.6; 
  length 
  of 
  upper 
  

   canines, 
  44.2. 
  

  

  For 
  nearly 
  a 
  hundred 
  and 
  fifty 
  years 
  this 
  animal 
  has 
  been 
  given 
  

   the 
  wrong 
  name 
  by 
  all 
  writers. 
  Linnaeus 
  first 
  called 
  it 
  Simla 
  sphinx, 
  

   and 
  then 
  afterwards 
  renamed 
  a 
  young 
  Mandrill 
  Simla 
  malmon. 
  In 
  

   my 
  paper 
  in 
  the 
  Annals 
  and 
  Magazine 
  of 
  Natural 
  History, 
  (1. 
  c.) 
  the 
  

   error 
  into 
  which 
  all 
  writers 
  have 
  fallen 
  is 
  corrected, 
  and 
  an 
  explanation 
  

   given, 
  which 
  is 
  not 
  necessary 
  to 
  repeat 
  here. 
  

  

  The 
  Mandrill 
  is 
  a 
  thick-set 
  powerful 
  creature, 
  whose 
  face 
  and 
  

   buttocks 
  are 
  colored 
  to 
  an 
  extravagant 
  degree 
  in 
  blue 
  and 
  red, 
  and 
  

   when 
  the 
  animal 
  is 
  excited 
  these 
  hues 
  are 
  intensified. 
  The 
  head 
  is 
  very 
  

   large 
  in 
  proportion 
  to 
  the 
  body, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  face 
  painted, 
  like 
  that 
  of 
  

   a 
  circus 
  clown, 
  and 
  the 
  small 
  eyes 
  deep 
  set 
  beneath 
  the 
  overhanging 
  

   brows, 
  it 
  presents 
  a 
  bizarre 
  and 
  forbidding 
  aspect. 
  It 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  go 
  in 
  

   companies 
  and 
  the 
  adults 
  are 
  very 
  savage, 
  their 
  great 
  strength 
  and 
  for- 
  

   midable 
  canines, 
  over 
  an 
  inch 
  and 
  a 
  half 
  long, 
  making 
  them 
  dangerous 
  

   antagonists, 
  before 
  whom 
  an 
  unarmed 
  person 
  would 
  have 
  a 
  small 
  

   chance 
  of 
  escaping 
  with 
  his 
  life. 
  They 
  eat 
  almost 
  everything 
  in 
  the 
  

   shape 
  of 
  food 
  that 
  can 
  be 
  masticated, 
  but 
  insects 
  and 
  fruits 
  are 
  the 
  

   chief 
  articles 
  of 
  their 
  diet. 
  

  

  The 
  females 
  and 
  young 
  have 
  the 
  rostral 
  ridges 
  less 
  prominent 
  and 
  

   differ 
  in 
  hue, 
  and 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  nose 
  which 
  is 
  scarlet 
  and 
  so 
  con- 
  

   spicuous 
  in 
  the 
  males, 
  is 
  black. 
  

  

  Papio 
  planieostris 
  Elliot. 
  

  

  Papio 
  planirostris 
  Elliot, 
  Ann. 
  Mag. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  IV, 
  8th 
  Ser., 
  1909, 
  

   p. 
  305. 
  

  

  Type 
  locality. 
  Fan, 
  south 
  eastern 
  Cameroon, 
  West 
  Africa. 
  Type 
  

   in 
  Berlin 
  Museum. 
  

  

  Genl. 
  Char. 
  Skull 
  only 
  received, 
  no 
  skin. 
  Size 
  large, 
  facial 
  region 
  

   much 
  longer 
  than 
  braincase 
  ; 
  rostrum 
  very 
  broad 
  ; 
  ridges 
  curved 
  and 
  

   not 
  widely 
  separated 
  at 
  center, 
  not 
  rising 
  above 
  level 
  of 
  nasals; 
  very 
  

   broad 
  posteriorly 
  ; 
  lateral 
  pits 
  long, 
  moderately 
  deep 
  ; 
  entire 
  width 
  of 
  

  

  