SKULL OF TEE COMMON BABOON. 
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talk loudly, and to order the Baboon out of the place. The creature is frightened, and is rather 
disposed to resist ; whereupon the master makes his appearance, and pretends to take his part by 
opposing the intruder with violent gestures and threats, and making much of the poor brute. This 
has usually an excellent effect, and produces satisfactory results, the Baboon clinging henceforth to his 
friend. They are taught to help their masters in conjuring and juggling, and do some tricks well. 
THE COMMON BABOON. 
The skull of this Baboon has a face occupying about half of it, and the brain case is much 
contracted behind and at the sides of the brows, and is flattened behind and above, so that the 
top of the head and eyes looks pressed down. There is a ridge at the back of the skull extending 
from each ear-bone to a little knot at the back part of the occiput. All the back of the head 
is marked by the impression of the muscles of the back and neck, and the space for the jaw 
muscles is large on the side. Underneath, the skull is veiy long, there is the usual small space 
for the opening of the nostrils into the throat, and the palate is long and arched. In a specimen 
in the British Museum there is a little hook of bone on one of the small bones at the base of the 
skull (internal pterygoid bone), which is seen also in man, and it is for a tendon of a muscle to pass 
