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LION-TAILED BABOON. 
commonly fine specimen exhibited in this metro- 
poHs ; and is, therefore, here repeated, in order 
to give as complete an idea as possible of so re- 
markable a species. 
The animal, mentioned by Mr. Pennant in the 
last edition of his History of Quadrupeds, under 
the title of the Mottled Baboon, seems to be no 
other than the great brown Baboon already describ- 
ed; and the smaller animal mentioned in the same 
article, and termed the Little Baboon, appears, as 
he has himself observed, to be no other than the 
young or half-grown specimen of the former. 
LION-TAILED BABOON. 
Simla Ferox. S. caudata barhata nigra y barba amplissima albida. 
Museum Le-verianum, p. 6g. , 
Tailed black Baboon, with very large whitish spreading beard. 
Cercopithecus barbatus niger, barba incianii' pfottiissa. Raj, 
^adr. 158. , ^ 
Simla Silenus ? Lin. Sjst. Nat. 
Ouanderou. Buff. 14./. 169.//. 18. 
Lion-tailed Baboon. Pennant ^adr. p. 198. 4^,_^^^^ bflX* 
This species is remarkable in its appearance. 
It is equal to a middle-sized dog, and is entirely 
coal-black; except the beard, which is extremely 
large, and either white or of a very light grey. 
It surrounds the face to a considerable distance, 
and e'ives an air of uncommon fierceness to the 
animal. The tail is of a moderate length, and is 
terminated by a tuft. The nails are flat; the 
teeth remarkably large and strong. It is very 
