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There is a large stuffed baboon in the Hamburg Museum which I have had the 
satisfaction of examining, thanks to the courtesy of Professor Kraepelin, who sent it to 
the Berlin Museum for my inspection. I hesitate to identify it with the baboons just 
described, as it is a much more yellow-coloured animal, with a somewhat differently 
shaped skull, the facial portion of which is flatter and shorter and more straightly 
projected forwards than in any of the skulls herein described. It is unfortunate that 
no reliance can be placed on this as being a normal feature of the skull, the animal 
having spent about a quarter of a century in confinement. Another feature of this 
baboon is the great length of the tail, which is longer than the body and head, whereas 
in P. cynocejplialus the tail is considerably shorter than that measurement. 
mm. 
Snout to vent.745 
Vent to tip of tail.790 
Height at shoulder.650 
It has the long hair of P. cynocephalus. The following are its general features :— 
The face was evidently paler than that of P. cynocephalus. The hairs are long 
on the back of the neck and more especially on the shoulder, where some of them are 
as much as 330 mm. These long hairs, like the others, have a black tip about 16 mm. 
long, a yellow baud below it about 10 mm., followed by a black band of the same 
breadth, succeeded by a yellow band also 10 mm., and then by another 7 mm., the 
yellowish-brown basal portion of the hair being 284 mm. in extent. On the rump the 
hairs measure 100-161, and on the vertex 60-60. On the front of the shoulder 
the hair is 160 mm. long, on the middle of the humerus 100-180, and on the middle 
of the radius 46-60. On the outside of the thighs it is 60-100 mm. long, and on the 
middle of the tibial region 60-90. On the sides of the body it is 170-260 mm. long. 
On the sides of the base of the tail it is 40-60, but beyond this the hair is short and. 
adpressed, but the hairs at the tip are about 60 mm. long. 
The general colour throughout is yellow, with a yellowish-olive tint, palest on the 
limbs, more especially on their posterior surfaces. The upper surfaces of the feet are 
yellow with a slight admixture, more especially on the hind feet, of black-tipped 
hairs. The tail at its base is concolorous with the back ; behind this it becomes 
brownish and speckled with the yellow annuli, but towards the tip these disappear, 
and it is dark greyish brown. 
The sides of the face before the malar bones and the area extending from below the 
eyes to the mouth are clad with short white hairs, the upper surface of the mesial 
portion of the face, to halfway between the eyes and the nose, being covered with 
very fine blackish hairs. The hairs on the inner side of the ears are white. 
The great length of the skull, 236 mm., is largely due to its thickened condition 
produced by a life of confinement. 
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