THE RIBBED-NOSE BABOON. 



Generic Characters. 

 Four cutting, and two canine teeth in each jaw. 

 Each foot formed like a hand, generally with flat nails, and, except 



in one inftance, has four fingers and a thumb. 

 Eyebrows above and below. 

 Tail fhort. 



Synonims. 



Le Mandrill, de Buffon, xiv. 154. tab. xvi. xviL 

 Sim i a Maim on, Linn. Syjt. 35. 

 Le Maimon, Schreber, 90. tab. vii. 



Ribbed-nose Baboon, Pennant Hift. Quad. vol. i. p. 190. 



WHETHER we confider this lingular animal with refpecl to its fize 

 and ilrength, or contemplate the variety of beautiful colours with which its 

 body is embelliihed, we mull of necetfity allow it a diftinguifhed place 

 among the objects of curiofity and admiration. 



Its long naked nofe, partly refembling that of a hog, is marked on either 

 fide with broad ribs of violet blue ; a vermilion line begins a little above its 

 eyes, and defcends on each fide the face to the tip of its nofe ; its chin is 

 furnimed with a thort and tapering orange beard ; the infide of its ears are 

 blue, gradually foftemng to purple, and terminating in vermilion ; its rump is 

 likewife of a vermilion colour, and the admirable tints on its hips are 

 gradations from red to blue: the hair on its forehead, being long and 

 inclining backward, forms a fort of pointed creft its back and legs are 

 covered with ihort foft hair, of a dufky colour mottled with yellow,- but on 

 its breaft and belly the hair is long, whitidi, and fprinkled with fmall dark 



