THE 
VARIEGATED BABOON,- 
Generic Character. 
Front-Teeth in each jaw 4, placed near together, 
Canine-Teeth folitary, longer than the others, 
diftant from the remaining teeth, or grinders. 
Grinders obtufe. 
Specific Character, &c. 
SHORT-TAILED WHISKERED SIMIA, 
bare behind, with pointed nails, and violet- 
poloured loins, 
GREAT BABOON, 
Pennant Hift. Ouadr. p. 173. 
Amongft the fpecies of Simiae called Baboons there 
are two, which though really very diftinct from each 
other, have yet fo great a general refemblance, that 
fome authors, not having had opportunities of exami¬ 
ning and comparing both fpecies, have confounded 
them with each other; thefe two animals are the Si¬ 
mla Sphinx and the Simia Maimon of Linnaeus, 
The moft Bribing difference is in point of fize; the 
Sphinx being by much the largeft of the two ; but 
there is alfo a confiderable difference in the colour of 
the 
