420 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



The Great Ribbed-nose BABOON, 



This fingular creature is no lefs remarkable for its 

 great fize and ftrength, than for the variety of beautiful 

 colours on different parts of its body. Its nofe is marked 

 with broad ribs on each fide, of a fine violet-blue colour : 

 A vermilion line begins a little above the eyes ; and, run- 

 ning down on each fide of the nofe, which is fomewhat 

 fimilar to that of a Hog, fpreads over the tip of it : The 

 infides of the ears are blue, which gradually foftens to a 

 purple, and terminates in vermilion ; the rump is alfo of 

 a vermilion colour ; and the beautiful colours on the hips 

 are gradations from red to blue : The hair on the fore- 

 head is long, turns back, and forms a kind of pointed 

 creft: Its beard is dark at the roots, orange at the mid- 



