THE 



VARIEGATED BABOON. 



Generic Character. 



Front-Teeth in each jaw 4, placed near together. 

 Canine-Teeth folitary, longer than the others, 

 diftant from the remaining teeth, or grinders. 

 Grinders obtufe. 



Specific Character, &c, 



SHORT -TAILED WHISKERED SIMIA, 

 bare behind, with pointed nails, and violet- 

 coloured loins, 



GREAT BABOON. 



Pennant Hifi. Qtiadr. p. 173« 



Amongft the fpecies of Simiae called Baboons there 

 are two, which though really very dirlincl: from each 

 other, have yet fo great a general rcfemblance, that 

 fome authors, not having had opportunities of exami- 

 ning and comparing both fpecies, have confoundedv 

 them with each other ; thefe two animals are the Si- 

 mla Sphinx and the Simia Maimon of Linnjeus. 



The molt ftriking difference is in point of lize ; the 

 Sphinx being by much the largeft of the two ; but 

 there is alfo a conliderable difference in the colour of 



the 



