BABOONS. 
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of Professor Huxley, the name mandrill seems to signify a man-like baboon; the 
term drill being an old English word of which one meaning denotes a baboon 
or ape. 
The limbs of the mandrill are characterised by their relative shortness and 
powerful build, and in correlation with these the form of the body is likewise 
powerful and robust. The ugly and massive head has scarcely any distinct forehead, 
the profile sloping almost uninterruptedly upwards from the muzzle to the occiput. 
TEE MANDRILL ( T V Hat. size). 
The nose, instead of projecting in front of the upper lip, as in the sacred baboon, is 
somewhat truncated; while the projecting eyebrows and deeply sunk eyes com¬ 
municate a forbidding expression to the whole countenance. The tubercular 
swellings on either side of the muzzle are supported on ridges arising from the 
swollen bones of this part of the skull, and are themselves almost the size of a man’s 
fist. As a whole, they are somewhat sausage-shaped, and are marked with a series 
of prominent transversely-disposed ribs of light blue, with deep purple in the 
grooves, while the middle line and the tip of the nose are scarlet. The contrast 
