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THE MAMMALS OF EGYPT. 
in Mashonaland it finds its way into the region long ago supposed by some authorities 
to contain the “land of Ophir,” and the claim of which to this distinction has again 
been advocated by Mr. W. E. de Winton and more recently by Dr. Karl Peters. Ihis 
was the land whence Solomon’s ships brought him apes ; and if so, doubtless the 
yellow baboon may also have been carried to the (rulf of Akabah in ships of the 
same king from Tarshish, if, as has been supposed, Mombasa occupies the site, or 
nearly so, of that ancient seaport. 
The following is a list of the skins and skulls, or skulls by themselves, of this baboon 
from well-authenticated localities, which have been examined by me : 
Specimens 'preserved in the British Museum. 
1 d, Lamu. Type of P. thoth ibewnus, Thos., ex Coll. F. J. Jackson. Reg. No. 92.10.18.1. 
Skin and skull. 
1 J', Mombasa, nearly adult. Received in the Zoological Gardens 15/11/94, died 20/11/94. 
Reg. No. 95.5.4.1. Skin and skull. 
1 ? , Mombasa, nearly adult. Received in the Zoological Gardens 15/11/94, died 19/12/94. 
Reg. No. 95.5.4.2. Skin and skull. 
1 d.shot at Fort Johnston, Nyassa (H. C. Macdonald), Sir Harry H. Johnston. Skin and 
skull. The latter doubtful. Reg. No. 97.10.1.9. 
1 S, Zomba, 6 Nov. 1896 (Blantyre district, west of Lake Shirwa), Nyassa (A. Whyte), 
Sir H. H. Johnston. Reg. No. 97.10.1.10. Skin and sknll. 
1 of Cy'aocephalus thoth, Ogilby (without locality). Stuffed. Reg. No. 55.12.24.18. 
Skull 1100 a, Ost. Cat. 
1 Cynocephal'us babuin, Zool. Gardens, Lond. Reg. No. 50.7.9.7. Stuffed and skull. 
Specimens preserved in Berlin Museum. 
1 $, Osi-Tana. Coll. Denhardt. Skull. 
1 ? , Marpiensen, one half-hour from Tanga. Coll. Dr. Heinsen. Skull. 
1 $, left bank of Kikafa, near Madschame, Kilima-njaro. Coll. Dr. Lent. Reg. No. 7587. 
Skull. 
1 $, Moschi, Kilima-njaro. Coll. v. der Marwitz. Skull. 
\ S} Mpapwe. Coll. Elpous. Reg. No. 26869. Skull. 
1 J', Mpapwe. Coll. Rohmer. Skin and skull. 
1 cJ, Mpapwe. Coll. Werther. Skin and skull. 
1 cJ, Ukami. Coll. Leider. One of the types of C. lafigheldi, Matschie. Reg. No. 6495. Skull 
only. 
1 (J, Perondo, Uhehe. Coll. Dr. Stierling. Skin and skull. 
1 ^, Langenberg, North Nyassa. Coll. Dr. F. Fulleborn. Skin and skull. 
Masimani. Coll. M. Schillings. Three flat skins. 
Specimen preserved in the Hamburg Museum. 
1 $ , Ungnru, German E. Africa. Dr. Stuhlmann. One of the types of C. langheMi, Matschie. 
Stuffed specimen with skull. 
