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BABOONS. 
Naturalise, except M. de Buff on , has copied Geff 
tier: but we think the firft ought to have applied 
the name of Baboon to this fpecies, initead of that 
deferibed by him, p, igg. the one having the cha¬ 
racter of this fedtion, the other having a length of 
tail, that conftitutes that of the monkey. 
The animal called, by Barbot and Bofman * 3 
Smitten, is a large fpecies to be referred to this 
genus : it is deferibed with a great head, fhort tail, 
and of a moufe color; that it grows to the fize of 
five feet, is very fierce, and will even attack a man. 
The mandrill mentioned by Smithy in his voyage 
to Guinea , is another kind ^ probably only a variety 
of the Smitten . He fays it grows to a vaft fize : the 
body as thick as that of a man : the teeth large 
and yellow: head vaftly large : face broad .and fiat, 
wrinkled, and covered with a white (kin : nofe al¬ 
ways running : body covered with long black hair 
like a bear. M. de Buffoon makes this laft fynony-* 
mous with his mandrill ; but both the fize and length 
of hair, and greatnefs of the head, ihew them to be 
of a very different fpecies. 
The < Tretretretre of Madagascar is another animal 
of this kind *, deferibed to be of the fize of a calf of 
two years old *, to have a round head, vilage and 
ears of a man, feet of an ape, hair curled: a foil- 
tary fpecies : the natives are greatly afraid of it, 
and fly its haunts as it does theirs **. 
* Barbcfs Guinea, 212. Bofman s Guinea } 242. 
Flaccurt biji. Madug% 154. 
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