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fruits, nuts, roots, and other vegetables. It is lively, 

 playful, and full of mifchievous frolics ; walks commonly 

 on all four, is in continual motion, and leaps with aflo- 



nifhing agility. This fpecies is faid to come from the 



coaft of Guinea. 



The MAIMON, or Pig-tailed' BABOON, 



jfb termed from its fhort naked pig-like tail, is the learc 

 of all the Baboon kind ; a gentle, mild, and tractable 

 animal ; very lively and frolicfome : but has none of that 

 impudent petulance fo peculiar to mod of its fpecies. — 

 Its muzzle is large and thick ; face and ears naked, and 

 of a flefh colour ; the hair on the head and back is of a 

 deep olive, paleft on the belly ; it has hazel eyes, cheek 

 pouches, callofities on the buttocks, which are naked, 



and of a red colour. It is a native of Sumatra and 



Japan. 



One of this kind was fhewn in the North in 1788, 

 from which this drawing was made. 



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