WOOD BABOON. 
The height of die V/ ood Baboon, when erect, 
is about three feet ; and the animal is of a ro- 
bust make. It has a long Dog-like face, co- 
vered with a fine-grained, smooth, glossy, 
black skin. The hands a!id feet are also 
naked, black, and glossy, like the face ; and 
they have white, flat nails, rounded at the ex- 
tremities. The nails on the hands, though 
long, are not quite so long as those on the feet, 
and they are somewhat more rounded. The 
body, head, limbs, and tail, are covered with 
longish, close-set hair, which is elegantly 
mottled Vv'ith black and tawmy ; every indivi- 
dual hair being marked with alternate blackish 
and ferruginous rings, which give the whole a 
sort of freckled appearance. The ears are al- 
most hid in the fur. The tail, which is not 
quite three inches long, is very hairy on the 
upper part. The callosities behind are red. 
Pennant, in describing the Yellow Baboon, 
numediately after this animal, which he says 
it greatly resembles, except in size and it's 
hairy hands, not very consistently adds, " these 
two arc about two feet long ; probably, natives 
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