HOG-FACED BABOON. SI 
This Baboon is not uncommon in exhibitions of 
animals. Its length, from nose to tail, is about 
two feet. Tail exactly as in the former. 
HOG-FACED BABOON. 
Simia porcaria. S, semkaudata, capite suillo, rostro nudo, corpore 
fusco-oli'vaceo, natibus testis, unguibus acuminatis, Lin. Syst, Nat, 
Gmel. Boddaert Naturf, 22. p, 17. t. I. 2,P 
Short- tailed brown Baboon, covered behind, with black naked 
hog-like face, and pointed nails. 
Hog-faccd Baboon. Penn. ^adr, p. iSy.P 
This animal is described by Dr. Boddaert, in a 
German work, entitled Der Naturforcher. If is 
said to be three feet six inches in length : its co- 
lour is a deep olive-brown; the face large and 
black ; the nose truncated at the end, somewhat 
like that of a hog : the nails are sharp : the tail 
appears, from the figure, to be about the length 
of the leg, from the knee to the foot : there are no 
bare spaces behind ; but the lower part of the ab- 
domen seems bare, and of a dull flesh colour. On 
a general view it seems not unlike the Wood Ba- 
boon, except in the greater length of the tail 
Dr. Boddaert imagines it to have been thexoipoTri^moi 
of Aristotle. It is said to be a native of Africa. 
The Hog-faced Baboon of Mr. Pennant appears 
to be a very different species, and was introduced 
into the History of Quadrupeds on the authority 
of a drawing in the British Museum ; but as he has 
given no description of its colour, it is necessary 
