PYGMY. 15 



is a native of ^Ethiopia, where it is most common ; 

 but it is also found in other parts of Africa. It 

 is easily tamed, and is much more docile and 

 gentle than the former species. 



In the supplemental part of the Count de Buf~ 

 fon's Natural History, we also meet with a seem- 

 ing variety of the Pygmy, which is said to differ 

 in having no callosities or bare spaces behind. 

 Mons. BufYon thinks it a distinct species, and ob- 

 serves, that it has been described by no one ex- 

 cept Prosper Alpinus, who has given a figure of 

 it. The figure given in Buffon's work is from a 

 drawing sent to him by Mr. Peter Collinson. The 

 hair is said to be red. The face seems, in the en- 

 graving, to be represented of a dark colour ; and 

 the general appearance is so perfectly that of the 

 Pygmy, that the particular difference is scarce 

 perceptible. The figure referred to in Prosper 

 Alpinus is at pi. 20. fig. 1. of his Hist. Nat. 

 iEgypt. That given by Buffon is copied in the 

 present work. 



We now proceed to the second division of this 

 genus, or that containing the Baboons. 



Much confusion seems to have prevailed among 

 naturalists with respect to the different species of 

 Baboons, and the synonymous names of authors 

 have been erroneously given, not only in the 

 twelfth edition of the Systema Naturae of Linnaeus, 

 but in the History of Quadrupeds by Mr. Pennant 

 and others. We shall begin with the species most 

 commonly seen in exhibitions of animals. 



