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Dar-Fur. The 8imia sphinx of Cailliaud, Ehrenberg considered should be regarded as 
the young of Papio hamadryas^ Linn., until further and exact observations should prove 
Cailliaud to have been correct. 
Riippell was the first qualified zoologist to visit the so-called Island of Meroe and 
Kordofan. The first of these localities he visited in the beginning of 1824, and the 
second on his third journey to New Dongola in the years 1824-25. In the ‘ Neue 
Wirbelthiere ’ he records P. hamadryas not only from Abyssinia but also from Sennaar, 
Kordofan, and Dar-Furwhereas in his Catalogue^ he restricts this species, and 
correctly so, to Abyssinia. Under the name of Cynocephalus habuin, a baboon is 
stated ^ to inhabit Abyssinia, Sennaar, and Dongola, but in his Catalogue the distri¬ 
bution of C. bahuin is likewise restricted to the first of these localities. Besides 
these two baboons, which Riippell states he had observed in the wild state, he 
mentions that two others occurred in the region of the Nile: one, a large unknown 
Cynocephalus, having whitish hair throughout, red callosities and buttocks, and red 
to the middle of the tail, was said to be found in the southern provinces of Abyssinia, 
and to extend as far west as Dar-Fur, living in wooded districts. The description was 
drawn up doubtless from native accounts, as Eiippell was careful to let it be known 
when he had seen or had not seen the objects he described. This account suggests 
P. hamadryas as probably the baboon that was meant. The other baboon was said to 
be as large as a young ass, with longish grey-black hair, somewhat long tail, and white 
callosities and rump. He concluded it to be a Cynocephalus, and suggested it might 
probably be the true C. porcarim, Boddaert, which he believed F. Cuvier had con¬ 
founded with C. sphingiolus^ Hermann, whereas it was in all likelihood the same baboon 
which he had discovered in Abyssinia and identified with Papio anubis, F. Cuv. 
The only specimens of baboons collected by Kiippell in his wanderings, and preserved 
in the Frankfort Museum, are registered under the names of Cynocephalus hamadryas 
and G. anubis^ and both were obtained in Abyssinia. 
Riippell also recorded from the Nile Valley (Sennaar and Kordofan) the two species 
Cercopithecus griseoviridis=C. cethiops, Linn., and C. ruber, Gmel. = C. pyrrhonotus, 
Hemp. & Ehr. In the account of his residence in Dongola ^ he speaks of the natives 
hunting monkeys with dogs, and mentions that on his journey to Kordofan he met 
with the tracks of monkeys. 
The ‘ Magot’ {Macacus sylvanus, Linn.) was one of the monkeys which Riippell said 
he had himself seen alive. He stated that it occurred in the western Oases of Egypt 
^ In a biographical sketch of Eiippell’s life in the ‘ Allgemeine deutsche Biographic,’xxix. 1889, I cannot 
find that he ever visited either Sennaar or Dar-Eur, so that in referring species to these localities he did not 
speak from personal observation. 
^ Mus. Senck. iii. 1845, p. 151. 3 J^eue Wirbelth. p. 7. 
^ lleisen in Nubicn, Kordofan, &c. 1829, p. 70. Op. at. p. 8. 
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