LION-TAILED BABOON. 51 
elegantly figured in the Museum Leverianum. 
It -is a native of the East Indies^ particularly of 
the island of Ceylon^ where it resides in woods ; 
it is also said to be found in the interior parts 
of Africa. In its manners it is savage and un- 
tractable. It is necessary to observe^ that the 
figure given by the Count de Buffon, though very 
good in other respects, was drawn from a mu- 
tilated specimen, in which the tail was defective, 
in consequence of which it does not convey a 
true idea of the animal. I have sometimes thought 
it not improbable that the strange figure in Ges- 
ner, p. 859, which is also given by Aldrovandus, 
p. 24^5 and copied by Dr. Tyson at fig. 17 of 
his work on the Oran Otan, might, in reality, 
have owed its origin to this species of Baboon ; 
of which it may pass for a very bad representa- 
tion, with the additional circumstance of being 
figured with scarce any hair on the body, in order 
to give it more of the human appearance. 
This species seems to vary in a remarkable 
manner, being either of a light grey, or perfectly 
white, with the beard black, so as to present an 
appearance exactly opposite, in point of colour, 
to the animal above-described. In this state it 
has been considered as distinct, by some authors^ 
and is placed as such in the Gmelinian edition of 
the System a Naturae, under the title of S. mter. 
In this white state it is found in Ceylon. 
Mr. Pennant also seems to consider the S, Fait- 
7ms of Lin. as another variety of this species. 
