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seen, and the animals evidently keep much to the sides of rocky ravines. The herds 
vary in number; some cannot include much less than 250 to 300 Monkeys of all ages. 
This species feeds on small fruits, berries, and seeds, and often on buds of trees and 
on young shoots. On the highlands I frequently saw troops of them in the fields, 
searching for the ‘ quentee,’ the small tubers of Cyperus esculentus. This species is 
rarely seen in trees ; it appears to avoid woods.” 
Papio liamadryas has never been observed, as far as I have been able to ascertain, 
between the western side of the Suakin range and the Nile. It is present on the 
mountains in the neighbourhood of Suakin, as I obtained a young male from 
the hills near to Tokar. I am indebted to Mr. Menges, who knows that region well, 
for the information that this species follows the Habab Mountains as far as Tokar. 
[Heuglin (Reise N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 7) says that this baboon is known by the Arabs of 
the Red Sea coast as ‘ Rohab,’ and in Egypt it is called ‘ Qird.’ Among the local 
tribes it is variously called ‘ Zindsero ’ and ‘ Djogura.’ I cannot find any published 
reference to the Amharic name ‘ Netcho ’ mentioned below as being on a specimen in 
the Stuttgart Museum. — W. E. de W.] 
Stuttgart Museum. 
A male juv.. No. 1034, from Djidda Thai, collected by Heuglin in 1863, “ called 
‘ Netcho ’ in Amharic,” is uniform brown throughout and has a tufted tail. It is 
quite young, with some of its milk-teeth still in place. There can be no question 
about its specific identity with P. liamadryas. There is a young female of this 
species in the same Museum, No. 1288, skeleton 1359 ; obtained by Dr. Klunzinger at 
Suakin in 1869. 
The first of the skulls measured (p. 32) is distinguished from the second by the 
character of a shorter preorbital expansion of the muzzle, and in this and in its 
general characters it resembles the mummy skull (Plate III. fig. 1), whereas the 
second skull, in its elongated muzzle, resembles the skull of Ruppell’s specimen 
(Plate HI. fig. 2) in the Senckenberger Museum at Frankfort. In the skull from 
Somaliland the distance between the middle of the lower border of the orbit to the 
inside of the anterior end of the nasal is 53 mm., and in the other specimen, from 
Bogosland (Heuglin), 61 mm. The anterior breadth of the muzzle in the former, 
opposite the anterior end of the nasals, is 38 mm., and in the latter 32. The 
stufied skin of the latter specimen is in the Stuttgart Museum, and is a typical 
P. liamadryas. Professor Lamport informs me that the stuffed skin of the first 
individual is in St. Petersburg. He saw the specimen, and he states that he is 
perfectly certain as to its being P. liamadryas. It was mounted in Stuttgart, 
and Herr Katz, who stuffed it, also assures me that there can be no doubt that it is 
correctly identified. 
