PYGMT. 
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IS a native of iEthiopia^ where it is most common ; 
but it is also found in other parts of Africa. It 
is easily tamed^ and is much more docile and 
gentle than the former species. 
In the supplemental part of the Count de Buf- 
fon's Natural Histor}^^ we also meet with a seem- 
ing variety of the Pygmy^ which is said to differ 
in having no callosities or bare spaces behind. 
Mons. Buffon thinks it a distinct species, and ob- 
serves^ that it has been described by no one ex- 
cept Prosper Alpinus, who has given a figure of 
it. The figure given in Buifon's work is from a 
drawing sent to him by Mr. Peter Collinson. The 
hair is said to be red. The face seems^ in the en- 
graving, to be represented of a dark colour ; and 
the general appearance is so perfectly that of the 
Pygmy, that the particular difference is scarce 
perceptible. The figure referred to in Prosper 
Alpinus is at pi. 20. fig. 1. of his Hist. Nat 
^gypt. That given by Buffon is copied in the 
present work. 
We now proceed to the second division of this 
genus, or that containing the Baboons. 
Much confusion seems to have prevailed among 
naturalists with respect to the different species of 
Baboons, and the synonymous names of authors 
have been erroneously given, not only in the 
twelfth edition of the Systema Naturae of Linnaeus,, 
but in the History of Quadrupeds by Mr. Pennant 
and others. We shall begin with the species most 
commonly seen in exhibitions of animals. 
