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Permission was given me to have the skull of a mummified baboon cleaned by an 
osteologist of the Natural History Department. Some of its teeth were wanting, and 
the under jaw was slightly imperfect. Ilowever, 1 had it photographed, and beside it 
(Plate III. at the close of my account of P. hamadryas) there is placed for comparison 
a photograph of the skull of a wild-killed Fapio hamadryas^ Linn., collected by Puppell 
in Abyssinia in the third or fourth decade of the last century. 
Eadiograph N°. 3 discloses the contents of a wrapped mummy which Professor 
Flinders Petrie kindly permitted me to subject to the Edntgen rays before its 
presentation by the Egypt Exploration Fund to the Natural History Department of 
the British Museum along with other mummified objects. The animal is so very 
immature as to render it impossible to determine the species. It was found at 
Denderah in the winter of 1897-8, and Professor Petrie has stated that it is of the 
Eoman period. 
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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Pythagoras, who lived about 2500 years ago, wrote an account of the Red Sea. This 
precious fragment has been preserved to us by ^lian^. In it the Greek philosopher 
and traveller gave a good detailed description of an animal he had met with in his 
travels along the Red Sea. He says it was a terrestrial animal, and that its name, 
KtiTToc, meant ‘ garden,’ as the animal was variously coloured. When full-grown, it was 
as large as an Erythrean dog. Its head, back, and spine as far as the tail were rufous, 
but that on these parts there were some golden-coloured hairs scattered here and there. 
Its face was white to its very cheek, thence, however, golden bands ran right down to 
its neck. The neck, chest, belly, and front of the feet were whitish, but the hinder 
parts of the feet and their soles were black. The two mammae were greenish blue, and 
each was so large that it filled the hand. The shape of its muzzle might be compared 
to that of a Cynocephalus. Such is the original description of the famous kvttoc. 
In Pythagoras’s description, as detailed by Hilian, one can without doubt recognize 
the red monkey, Cercopithecus pyrrhonotus^ Hemp. & Ehr. My visit to Suakin was 
signalized by an experience similar to that of the Greek philosopher, because one of 
the monkeys brought to me during my stay at that seaport was an example of the 
KTjTToc, and the interest of the experience was heightened by the fact that I also became 
possessed of a young Fapio hamadryas, the KvvoK€<pa\oc of many of the classical authors. 
J Hist. Anim. lib. xvii. c. 8. 
