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baboons in the evening, at their drinking-hour. He, however, threw no light on the 
species, and simply described it as “the great dog-faced baboon {Cynocephalus)" 
In view of the name by which the baboon, which I suppose to represent P. anuhis, 
F. Cuv., is known in Abyssinia, viz. by the Amharic word ‘ Doguera,’ it is a curious 
coincidence that in the most recent map of this part of the Nile Valley issued by 
the War Office ^ there is a village called Dogovura, situated near Obbo in the Latuka 
district. According to Professor T. Nbldeke, the Amharic language extends from the 
left bank of the Takazzi into regions far to the south. 
Among the collections of natural history objects made by Petherick on the White 
Nile there was the flat prepared skin of a monkey which had been in use either as an 
apron or as a mat for sitting on. It wms wrongly referred by Dr. J. E. Gray to 
C. leucampyx'^. It appeared to be a well-marked species, and was described by 
Schlegel ^ under the name of C. neglectus. This species has been rediscovered within 
the last two years by Dr. Donaldson Smith 4, who brought home specimens which he 
killed on the Omo River, thus proving it to be an inhabitant of the valley of the 
White Nile. 
Mrs. Petherick in her note-book, mentions the presence of Colobus guereza on the 
beautifully w^ooded banks of the Ayi River, about 30° E. long, and 4° 50' N. lat. 
Hartmann®, in his account of the mammals of North-east Africa, gave a list of the 
monkeys which had been recorded from Abyssinia and the upper region of the Nile, 
up to the time at which he wrote, but without critical discrimination. 
F. L. James observed baboons sitting on the rocks a short way to the east of 
Hackota on the Gash River, and not far from Kassala. He spoke of them as the 
“ Cynocephalus or dog-faced variety [C. hamadryadT 
In the Zoological Gardens at Frankfort-on-the-Main I have recently seen (1899) 
some black-faced, olive-coloured baboons, which at once recalled to me F. Cuvier’s 
figure of P. anuUs ; and on making inquiries I learned that they had been obtained 
through the well-known dealer in living animals, Mr. J. Menges, of Limburg a. d. Lahn. 
Mr. Menges has been so good as to inform me that they had been brought by him 
from Basaland on the river Gash, east of Kassala, and that “ this dark-faced, olive- 
coloured baboon is the only one met with on the rivers Gash, Setit Atbara, Basalam, 
Rahad, and Dinder.” He has further stated that he believed it to be the same baboon 
1 Map of the Nile Talley from Berber to Victoria N'yanza, 1898. 
2 Cat. Monkeys &c. Brit. Mus. 1870, p. 22. 3 Mus. d’Hist. Nat. cles Pays-Bas, vii. 1876, p. 70. 
[Proc. Zool, Soc. 1900, p. 801.] 
® Petherick’s Travels in Centi*al Africa, i. 1869, p. 295. 
6 Zeitschr. Ges. f. Erdk. Berk iii. 1868, pp. 30-37. 7 Wild Tribes of the Sudan, 1883, p. 62. 
8 Baker also observed a baboon at Setit, as many as 100 being in a group (Nile Tribut. Abyss. 1867, 
p. 307). 
