BABOONS. 103 
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With fhort tails, or Baboons, 
Lc Mandrill de Buffon , xiv. 154. bata genis cseruleis ftriatis. Lin % 69. R1 b B 1 ® 
tab. xvi. xvii. fyji. 35. No S £. 
S. maimon. S. caudata fubbar- 
B. with a long naked nofe compreffed tideways, of 
a purple color, and ribbed obliquely on each fide : 
on the chin a fhort picked orange beard : tail very 
hairy, about two inches long, which it carries ere<ft: 
buttocks naked : hair foft, dufky mottled with yel¬ 
low : length, from nofe to tail, about two feet. 
Inhabits Guinea . Thofe I have feen fat eredb on 
their rump, but walked on all fours: were good- 
natured, but not fportive. 
By the rude figure in Gefner this feems to be 
the animal he intended, by his Papio : (the Simla 
Sphinx of Linn&us , 35.) but it muft be obferved, 
that able Naturalift here makes a great miftake, in 
thinking it the Hyama of the Antients ; but his de¬ 
fection is taken from a drawing, not from nature. 
Limueus places this among the fimi<e cauda elon- 
■gata , and applies to it fome of the fynonyms of the 
72d fpecies: but his defeription agrees with this fo 
exadly, that there can be no doubt but that it is his 
Simla maim on. 
This animal is well deferibed by M. de Buff-on, Mr. 
Ray , Linnaeus, and M. Brijfon ; and indeed every 
* P. 560. Papio, a barbarous name: from whence, the Englijb % 
Baboon s Italian , Babbuino, and French , Babouin. 
H 4 Naturalift, 
