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COMMON BABOON. 
Simla Sphinx. S. semkaudata, ore ^ihrissato, unguihus acuminatis, 
natihus cal'vis. Lin. 
Short-tailed brown Baboon, with callosities behind^ and with dull 
flesh-coloured face and pointed nails. 
Papio. Baboon. Gesn. ^adr. 252. Aldro-v. dig. 260. Jonst. 
^adr. 1 45 . 6 1 . /. I . Raii ^adr. 1 5 8 . Briss. ^adr. 192. 
Papion. Buff. 14. 13. 14. 
Mottled Baboon. Pennant ^adr. ig J. 
This is a species of very considerable size^ and 
when in a sitting posture^ is from three to four 
feet in height. It is extremely strong and mus- 
cular in its upper parts^ and slender towards the 
middle; but this is the general shape of all the 
true Baboons: its colour is an uniform greyish 
brown^ paler beneath; the hairs on the upper 
parts^ if narowly inspected, appear as if mottled; 
the face is long^ and of a tawny flesh colour; the 
eyes appear as if sunk into the head or very deeply 
seated, and are of a hazel colour. The hands and 
feet have strong, blunt claws; but the thumbs 
of the hands have rounded nails. The tail is 
very short. This is certainly the Sphinx of Ges- 
ner, the synonyms to which are erroneously ap- 
plied both by Linnaeus and Mr. Pennant. In 
Gmelin's edition of the Systema Nature they 
are rectified. This also seems to be the species 
intended by the Count de Buffon, and figured 
in his Natural History. It is ferocious in its 
manners, and its appearance is, at once, gro- 
tesque and formidable. The region surround- 
ing the tail, to a considerable distance on each 
