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THE MAMMALS OE EGYPT. 
and that it was known as ‘ Girt ’; there is, however, no evidence that Euppell ever 
visited any of these western oases. It may be as well, however, to record here that 
Hartmann ^ mentions, on the verbal authority of Barth, that this species is found in 
the Libyan desert, to the west of the Nile in Ahir, but adds that it cannot be regarded 
as forming part of the fauna of the Nile Valley. It may be that Barth was only repeating 
what he had learned from Euppell’s writings. 
Sundevall 2 , in his account of the results of Professor Hedenborg’s expedition into 
the Upper Nile Valley, mentioned the presence at Sennaar of Simia subviridis (S. griseo- 
viridis, F. Guv., rec.), S. pgrrhonofus,ILem.'g. & Ehr., and Cymcephaliis anuhis, F. Cnv., 
but none of them were described. 
Heuglin, whose observations in the valley of the Upper Nile extended as far south 
as 4° N. lat., entrusted his collections to Fitzinger for description. In the account ^ 
given of them by that author the following apes were stated to occur in the Upper 
Nile region, viz.: Colobus guereza, Eiipp., Cercopithecus griseoviridis, Desm., C. ruber^ 
Gmel., C. pyrrhonotus, Hemp. & Ehr., C. poUophmis, Heugl., Theropitheciis gelada, 
Eiipp., T. senex, Puch. & Schimp., T. obscurus, Heugl., Cynocephalus hamadryaa, 
Linn., C. anubis, F. Guv., and C. porcarius, Bodd. There were thus, according to 
Fitzinger and Heuglin, eleven species of monkeys inhabiting that region. 
Sir Samuel Baker records ^ that one of his men shot a great male baboon, one of a 
large party he had observed sitting on the rocks in the Latuka Valley, about 60 miles 
to the east of Gondokoro, at an elevation of about 2236 feet above the sea. He 
mentions the animal as a ‘ Gynocephalus,’ and says that it was about as large as a 
mastiff’ with a long brown mane like a lion. Hartmann ^ has suggested that this may 
possibly have been a Theropithecus gelada ; but one cannot help thinking that if Baker 
had had a specimen of the latter striking baboon before him, with its curiously-shaped 
head and remarkable bare patches on its chest and neck, he would never have 
dismissed it in his pages with a few words and designated it “ an immense specimen 
of the Gynocephalus,” a statement which evidently meant that he regarded it as 
being merely a very large individual of the baboon with which he was familiar from 
having met with it in various parts of the Nile Valley. 
The same traveller, who resided for five months at Sofi, above the junction of the 
Takazzi with the Atbara not far from Gedarif, has mentioned ^ that the tamarind-trees 
from July to November, the period of his visit, were generally filled with dog-faced 
1 Zeitschr. Ges. f. Erdk. Berlin, iii. 1868, p. 33. 
2 Kgl. Vet.-Akad. Handl. Stockh. 1843, p. 198. 
^ SB. k. Akad. Wissensch. Wien, liv. 1866, p. 537. 
^ Albert Nyanza, i. 1866, p. 339. 
® Op, cit. p. 37. 
® Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, 1867, p. 177. 
