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THE MAMMALS OF EGYPT. 
Its t66t}i have very much, the same dimensions as the teeth of P. cynocsphcilus, but 
with this insignificant difference, that the third upper and second lower premolars do 
not attain quite to the dimensions of the same teeth in P . cynocephalus. The differ¬ 
ence, however, is so infinitesimal that the dentition is practically identical with that 
of the Osi-Tana and Moschi baboons. 
When the specimen was sent to Berlin it bore on the stand the name C. hahuin and 
the locality “ Dongola.” Being much puzzled by the locality assigned to it, I wrote to 
Professor Kraepelin for further information respecting this baboon, and from him I 
learned that it had not come from Dongola, but from the West Coast of Africa, and 
that it was well remembered by Dr. Bolau, Director of the Hamburg Zoological 
Gardens. The following is its history :— 
It was presented to the Hamburg Zoological Gardens on the 12th July, 187o, by 
Messrs. Gaiser and Witt, whose factories (the only ones they possessed) were at I.agos, 
whence the baboon had been taken to Germany. Dr. Bolau informed Professor 
Kraepelin that the arrival of the baboon in the Hamburg Gardens was entered in his 
own register of the reception of animals in the Gardens as having come from West 
Africa, and that this record of the locality as the native country of the baboon was 
perfectly accurate. Dr. Bolau recollects it well as a full-grown splendid animal which 
had lived for nearly fifteen years in the Gardens, and he states that Mr. Gaiser had 
informed him that it had previously lived for a period of ten or twelve years in 
confinement in Africa. 
The locality whence this baboon was brought to Europe is thus quite assured, but 
at the same time it has yet to be established that a yellow baboon does exist there. 
It seems more probable to suppose that it had been carried to Lagos from some port 
to the south, possibly Angola, which may account for the statement on the stand that 
it came from Dongola. The characters of this baboon are such that there can be no 
doubt of its close affinity to the baboons here described, and it is quite possible that 
on the W'^est Coast, about Angola, the baboons of the East Coast may be represented 
by a local race of a yellow colour and with a long tail. On the other hand, if 
P. cynocephalus of the East Coast ranges as far west as Dar-Eur, it may be represented 
to the south-west by baboons of this character. 
This baboon would appear to answer to P. cynocephalus, Etienne Geoffr. St.-Hil.^ 
(nec Simia cynocephalus, Linn.), a term which I have purposely omitted from the 
foregoing synonymy. 
1 Ann. Mus. xix. 1812, p. 102. 
