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than that of ‘ Le Babouin,’ and the upper surface of the head was more flattened. The 
general colour of the pelage was green, much darker than that of his Babouin, and 
approaching that of the young of his Brill, except that the cheeks had pale yellow 
hairs, and the inner surface of the limbs was greyish white. All the anterior part of 
the face was black. The cheeks and the area around the eyes were of a flesh-colour. 
The ears and the feet were black ; the bare area of the buttocks was violet-coloured. 
This species of baboon F. Cuvier designated “ le Cynocephale AnuUsr He gave no 
indication whence it came; but as he selected the name of an Egyptian deity as 
appropriate to it, we are entitled to conclude that he supposed it to inhabit some 
country bordering upon Egypt. 
In the valley of the Nile, more especially on the so-called island of Meroe, and in 
many other localities, a baboon occurs which corresponds generally with the foregoing 
description, but more especially ivith the flgure F. Cuvier gave of the species. This is 
direct evidence favouring the supposition that this baboon of the Upper Nile really is 
the Anubis of that author ; and it should not be lost sight of that at the time I. Cuvier 
wrote, and for a number of years previously, many Frenchmen and Europeans of other 
nationalities were in the employment of Mehemet Ali, and had taken part in his 
expeditions into Upper Nubia and the Sudan, where this black-faced baboon occurs, 
so that it is quite probable that one of these Frenchmen may have sent or taken to 
Paris living examples of the species, or it may have been only skins. 
In 1819, Cailliaud, on his return to the French capital, took with him living examples 
of the monkeys found by him in Upper Nubia, and there can be no doubt that the 
baboon he saw at Sennaar and elsewhere, and wrongly recorded under the name of 
C. sphinx, was this species. 
Ogilby 1, writing thirteen years after Cuvier, described Cynoceplialus anubis, F. Cuv., 
as a Nubian species of a much more sombre green than C. hahuin, with a longer 
muzzle and a flatter skull. He described the anterior part of the face as black, 
the cheeks and a circle round the eyes as flesh-coloured; the cartilage of the nose 
was prolonged rather beyond the extremity of the upper lip; the ears and feet were 
black, and the callosities violet-coloured. He could not ascertain where the specimens 
he described—a full-grown male and a female in the Surrey Zoological Gardens— 
had been procured, but he thought it probable that they had come from Egypt; 
and he based this supposition on the circumstance that Hr. Riippell had brought 
specimens of this species from Abyssinia, which he himself had seen, and he added 
there could consequently be no doubt as to the habitat of the C. anubis. Unfortunately, 
flve years later 2 , he changed his opinion about the habitat of C. anubis, as he con¬ 
founded the baboon he described under the name of C. thoth with Riippell’s Abyssinian 
1 Libr. Enfc. Kuowl., Menageries, 1838, p. 427. 
2 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1843, p. 12. 
