URSINE BABOON. 
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the hind part of the head, on the limbs and hind 
part of the body, very short. Its limbs are strong 
and thick ; its hands and feet dusky. The nails 
on the fore feet are flat ; those on the hind re- 
semble claws. Its buttocks are very bare, and 
covered with a skin of a bloody colour. Its tail, 
which is scarcely the length of the body, is car- 
ried generally erect. 
The baboons of this species, in vast troops, 
inhabit the hottest regions of Africa and Asia. 
They are very fierce ; excessively impudent, in- 
decent, and lascivious. They rob gardens ; and 
are dangerous to people passing the place where 
they happen to be. When they dare not attack 
passengers, they run up trees, shake the boughs 
at them with great fury, and chatter very loud. 
In Arabia Felix they infest the woods by hundreds^ 
and oblige the owners of the coffee plantations 
to be continually on their guard against their de- 
predations. They are quite untameable. Some 
of them are above five feet high. 
Ursine or biUr baboon 
Seems to be a variety of the same species. It 
is covered with loftg dusky hair* and has, at first 
sight, the appearance of a young bear ; and 
hence it has its name. It has a great head, a long 
and thick nose, and short ears. The crown of, its 
head is covered with long upright hairs. The part 
of the head immediately above tbe forehead is pro- 
minent, and terminates in a ridge. Its body is 
thick and strong ; its limbs are short ; its tail mea-* 
sures half the length of the body, and is arched at 
the end. Its nails are flat and round ; its buttocks 
of a bloody redness. Even when sitting, it mea- 
sures four feet in height ; and when erect, is as 
high as a middie sized man. They are very nu-» 
