DOG-FACED BABOON. £9 



species in comparison with the Common Baboon ; 

 and is a native of the hottest parts of Africa and 

 Asia, where it is said to reside in vast troops, and 

 to be very fierce and dangerous. There is a 

 wonderful degree of sagacity in the countenance 

 of this animal, and a kind of solemn contempla- 

 tive disposition seems to be strongly indicated in 

 its looks, when calm and undisturbed ; but when 

 irritated, the most striking efforts of vindictive 

 violence are immediately exhibited. It is also 

 possessed of an uncommon degree of obstinate 

 moroseness > surpassing most others of its tribe, 

 and is, when in a state of confinement, of a dis- 

 position so rude and unquiet, and of manners 

 so peculiarly indecorous as generally to frustrate 

 all attempts to civilize and reclaim it. 



A supposed variety of this species, called by 

 Mr. Pennant the Ursine Baboon, is said to be not 

 uncommon in the neighbourhood of the Cape of 

 Good Hope ; of a dusky colour, and covered all 

 over with long shaggy hair ; it is nearly of the 

 size of a man : the head very large ; the nose long 

 and thick ; the ears short and thick, and the 

 crown of the head covered with long upright hair : 

 the tail is of the length of the body, and the bare 

 spaces on each side of a blood-red colour. This 

 variety is said to inhabit the mountainous parts 

 about the Cape, and to descend occasionallv into 

 the plains in order to pillage gardens and planta- 

 tions. 



The figure of the S. Hamadryas, in the Specu- 

 lum Linnaeanum, was a real portrait from an un- 



