HOG-FACED BABOON. 21 



This Baboon is not uncommon in exhibitions of 

 animals. Its length, from nose to tail, is about 

 two feet. Tail exactly as in the former. 



HOG-FACED BABOON. 



Simla porcaria. S. semicaudata, capite suillo, rostro nudo, corpore 

 fusco-oli'vaceo , natibus tectis, unguibus acuminatis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 

 Gmel. Boddaert Naturf. 22. p. lj. t. I. 2..? 



Short-tailed brown Baboon, covered behind, with black naked 

 hog-like face, and pointed nails. 



Hog-faced Baboon. Penn. Quadr. p. iSy.P 



This animal is described by Dr. Boddaert, in a 

 German work, entitled Der Naturforeher. It is 

 said to be three feet six inches in length : its co- 

 lour is a deep olive-brown; the face large and 

 black ; the nose truncated at the end, somewhat 

 like that of a hog: the nails are sharp: the tail 

 appears, from the figure, to be about the length 

 of the leg, from the knee to thefoot: there are no 

 bare spaces behind ; but the lower part of the ab- 

 domen seems bare, and of a dull flesh colour. On 

 a general view it seems not unlike the Wood Ba- 

 boon, except in the greater length of the tail. 

 Dr. Boddaert imagines it to have been the^o^flsrifiux*? 

 of Aristotle. It is said to be a native of Africa. 

 The Hog-faced Baboon of Mr. Pennant appears 

 to be a very different species, and was introduced 

 into the History of Quadrupeds on the authority 

 of a drawing in the British Museum ; but as he has 

 given no description of its colour, it is necessary 



