18 VARIEGATED BABOON. 
lorw*. On the top of the front the hair rises^ irt 
a remarkable manner, into a pointed form, and 
beneath the chin is a pointed beard of a light 
orange-yellow. Round the back of the neck the 
hair is much longer than in other parts, and in- 
clines downwards and forwards, somewhat in 
the manner of a wreath or tippet. The hair on 
this part has also a slight tinge of violet-brown. 
The breast and lower parts of the body are of a 
whitish colour. Round the region of the loins 
the skin is almost bare, and of a most beauti- 
ful violet-blue, gradually altering into a vivid 
vermilion, which is more conspicuous on the 
hinder parts, where it surrounds the tail, which 
is extremely short, or scarce apparent. The hands 
and feet are of a dusky colour, and are furaished 
with broad but pointed claws. It is a native of 
the interior parts of Africa ; but it is said to have 
been also brought from India. In the Leverian 
Museum is a most capital specimen of this Baboon, 
of which a general figure is given in Mr. Pen- 
nant's History of Quadrupeds ; but a much more 
elegant and accurate one may be found in the 
Museum Leverianum. 
A disfigured specimen of this curious animal, 
altered by cropping away the hair on the head and 
other parts, seems to have given rise to the descrip- 
tion by Dr. Bradley, and that in the Philosophical 
Transactions, vol. xxiv. p. 1571, from v/hence it 
was inserted, by Mr. Pennant, into the first edition 
of his History of Quadrupeds, under the title of 
