18 VARIEGATED BABOON. 



low. On the top of the front the hair rises, in 

 a remarkable manner, into a pointed form, and 

 beneath the chin is a pointed beard of a light 

 orange-yellow. Round the back of the neck the 

 hair is much longer than in other parts, and in- 

 clines downwards and forwards, somewhat in 

 the manner of a wreath or tippet. The hair on 

 this part has also a slight tinge of violet-brown. 

 The breast and lower parts of the body are of a 

 whitish colour. Round the region of the loins 

 the skin is almost bare, and of a most beauti- 

 ful violet-blue, gradually altering into a vivid 

 vermilion, which is more conspicuous on the 

 hinder parts, where it surrounds the tail, which 

 is extremely short, or scarce apparent. The hands 

 and feet are of a dusky colour, and are furnished 

 with broad but pointed claws. It is a native of 

 the interior parts of Africa ; but it is said to have 

 been also brought from India. In the Leverian 

 Museum is a most capital specimen of this Baboon, 

 of which a general figure is given in Mr. Pen- 

 nant's History of Quadrupeds ; but a much more 

 elegant and accurate one may be found in the 

 Museum Leverianum. 



A disfigured specimen of this curious animal, 

 altered by cropping away the hair on the head and 

 other parts, seems to have given rise to the descrip- 

 tion by Dr. Bradley, and that in the Philosophical 

 Transactions, vol. xxiv. p. 1571, from whence it 

 was inserted, by Mr. Pennant, into the first edition 

 of his History of Quadrupeds, under the title of 



