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moment doubted by any one who has seen it living. It 
wants the grand distinction of the Baboons, the only 
one on which reliance is to be placed, their terminal 
nostrils ; and coincides with the true Macaques in all 
those traits of which we have before spoken as charac- 
teristic of the group. The absence of tail would place 
it in the same division with the Barbary Ape, forming 
M. Cuvier's genus Inuus, but the physiognomy of the 
two animals is very different ; the fleshy cheeks, and 
consequent apparent depression of the nose, in the pre- 
sent species, indicating a close affinity to the Mandrills. 
Our animal is of a deep jet black in all its parts, 
with the exception of its large callosities which are 
flesh-coloured. Its body is covered with long woolly 
hair, becoming shorter on the limbs. Its ears are 
small ; its tail a mere tubercle, less than an inch in 
length ; and its cheek-pouches seem to be capable of 
much distension. Its face is broad, rather prominent, 
slightly narrowing at the muzzle, and abruptly truncate, 
with the nostrils placed very obliquely on the upper 
surface. On the top of the head it has a broad tuft 
of long hairs, falling backwards and forming a very 
remarkable crest. The expression of its physiognomy 
is peculiarly cunning. It seems to be rather violent in 
its temper, and tyrannizes not a little over the quiet 
Gray Gibbon, which is at present confined in the same 
cage. 
The specimen in the Paris collection was brought, 
according to M. Desmarest, from one of the islands of 
the Indian Archipelago ; and, according to M. Cuvier, 
from the Philippines. That in the Gardens is under- 
stood to have arrived in England in a vessel from the 
South Seas, but from what locality it was obtained has 
not been ascertained. 
