SO LION-TAILED BABOON. 



commonly fine specimen exhibited in this metro- 

 polis ; and is, therefore, here repeated, in order 

 to give as complete an idea as possible of so re- 

 markable a species. 



The animal, mentioned by Mr. Pennant in the 

 last edition of his History of Quadrupeds, under 

 the title of the Mottled Baboon, seems to be no 

 other than the great brown Baboon already describ- 

 ed; and the smaller animal mentioned in the same 

 article, and termed the Little Baboon, appears, as 

 he has himself observed, to be no other than the 

 young or half-grown specimen of the former. 



LION-TAILED BABOON. 



Simia Ferox. S. caudata larhata nigra, barba amplissima albida. 



Museum Leverianum, p. 6g. 

 Tailed black Baboon, with very large whitish spreading beard. 

 Cercopithecus barbatus niger, barba incana promissa. Raj. 



Quadr.p. 158. 

 Simia Silenus ? Lin. Syst. Nat. 

 Ouanderou. Buff. 14./. 169.//. 1 8. 

 Lion- tailed Baboon. Pennant ^uadr. p. 198. pi. 44. 



This species is remarkable in its appearance. 

 It is equal to a middle-sized dog, and is entirely 

 coal-black ; except the beard, which is extremely 

 large, and either white or of a very light grey. 

 It surrounds the face to a considerable distance, 

 and gives an air of uncommon fierceness to the 

 animal. The tail is of a moderate length, and is 

 terminated by a tuft. The nails are flat; the 

 teeth remarkably large and strong. It is very 



