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THE MAMMALS OF EGYPT. 
British Museum. 
Papio anubis, S, Lake Elmetaitaj Brit. E. Africa, 1899. Stuffed. Presented by F. J. Jackson, C.B. 
Skull No. 99.6.10.2. 
mm. 
Snout to vent.720 
Vent to tip of tail. 470 (hair at end of tail 75 mm.). 
Height at shoulder.565 
The general surface is washed blackish brown and yellowish, conferring on it a some¬ 
what finely mottled appearance wdien viewed at a distance. The hairs behind the chin 
and in front of the whiskers are greyish yellow, showing little or no annulation, but 
the whiskers themselves, as in all the foregoing specimens, are annulated like the 
body. Behind the ears, the base of the hairs is greyish brown, while on other parts of 
the body this portion of the hair is blackish brown. The ears are decidedly pointed; 
along the inside of the greater part of the upper half of the posterior border there 
is a line of long straight hairs directed backwards, having dark tips with a greyish 
sheen at their bases. This line of hairs is present in all these baboons. The hands 
and the area some way above the wrists are black, but the feet are speckled black and 
yellow. The tail is concolorous with the body, but with a rusty tint at the tip. 
The hairs on the occiput are 105 mm. long, on the shoulder 130 mm., and on the 
lumbar region about 70 mm. The under parts are annulated like the back. The face 
has the usual short haiirs, with bristly hairs on the lips, and long bristles on the side of 
the snout. The hairs around the bare buttocks are rusty yellow. 
Judging from the length of the facial portion of the skull, the muzzle has been 
considerably shortened in the stuffed animal. 
The Elmetaita skull has the basioccipiteil suture intact. The upper canines, 
although they measure 38 mm. long, have not yet been fully grasped by the alveolar 
border. All the other teeth are perfectly through and the incisors are considerably 
worn, more especially the upper ones. The posterior border of the last upper 
molar cuts the base of the anterior root of the zygomatic arch, and is slightly 
posterior to the hinder border of the maxillo-palatine foramen; there is a triangular 
expansion, 11 mm. long, behind it. The tympanic is not so overarched by the periotic 
as in the Fio Hill skull. The superciliary ridges are thrown upwards, but not to the 
same extent as in the specimen next described, a feature evidently due to its more 
youthful character, and the frontal ridges, owing to the same cause, are much more 
widely apart, and no ridge has yet been formed in the parietals. There is also greater 
breadth across the maxillary-malar suture than in the Fio Hill skull, owing to the 
greater expansion of the portion of the maxilla opposed to the malar. There is no 
sulcus from the orbit, the area anterior to which slopes downwards and forwards, and 
