THE LION-TAILED BABOON. 



Generic Characters. 

 Four cutting and two canine teeth in each jaw. 

 Each of the feet formed like hands, with flat nails. 

 Eye-brows above and below. 



Synonims. 



slmia veter. slmia caudata barbata alba, barba nigra, 



Linn. Syjt. 3(3. Brijfon Quad. 147. 

 Le Singe barbu noir, Schreber, 107. tab.xi. 

 Lion-Tailed Baboon, Pennant's Hift. Quad. vol. i. p. 18Q. 

 Cercophithecus barbatus primus, Clufii Exot. 371. Rati Syn» 



Quad. 159. Klein Quad. 89. 

 OuANDERou, de Buffon, xiv. 169. tab. xviii. 



THE length of this curious animal is about fifteen inches, from the 

 crown of the head to the infertion of the tail ; its bulk is that of a middling 

 fizedDog; its vifage is long, canine, and completely encircled with a full 

 buihy beard ; its nails are flat ; its teeth large ; and its tail terminated with 

 a tuft of hair like that of the Lion : the cheeks and pofteriors are bare ; the 

 hair on the belly is grey, excluflve of which the body is generally black. 

 The Ipecies, however, appears to be various, as the Grey Lion-tailed Baboon 

 is feen with a white beard, the black with a grey beard, and others are 

 defcribed as being perfectly white. 



Thefe animals reflde in the forefls, where an exuberant produce of fruit 

 and foliage affords them an abundant fubflltence. They are extremely 

 mifchievous, and will not permit any of the other kinds either to aflbciate 



