. An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct. Mammals. Pig. 344.—Skeleton of the Chaema Baboon (Cynoceplialus porcaHus). Prom De Blainville. published in 1744, wherein he mentions among the animals of Sierra Leone one " called by the white men in this country Man- drill," but adds, " why it is so called I know ; ^ Smith gives sufficiently accurate details to show that his animal is not that now called Mandrill, but the Chimpanzee. Bufibn, however, while quoting Smith's description, transferred the name to the very 1 Lacepede, "Nouv. tabl.
. An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct. Mammals. Pig. 344.—Skeleton of the Chaema Baboon (Cynoceplialus porcaHus). Prom De Blainville. published in 1744, wherein he mentions among the animals of Sierra Leone one " called by the white men in this country Man- drill," but adds, " why it is so called I know ; ^ Smith gives sufficiently accurate details to show that his animal is not that now called Mandrill, but the Chimpanzee. Bufibn, however, while quoting Smith's description, transferred the name to the very 1 Lacepede, "Nouv. tabl. ; (1799) in Mim. de VInstitut, vol. iii. p. 490 (1801). 2 " ' Mandrill' seems to signify a ' man-like Ape,' the word ' Drill' or ' Dril' having been anciently employed in England to denote an Ape or Baboon. Thus in the fifth edition of Blount's ' Glossographia, or a dictionary interpreting the hard words of whatsoever language now used in our refined English tongue . . very useful for all such as desire to understand what they read,' published in 1681, I find 'Dril, a stonecutter's tool wherewith he bores little holes in marble, etc. Also a large overgrown Ape and Baboon, so called.' ' Drill' is used in the same sense in Charlton's Onomasticon Zoicon, 1668. The singular etymology of the word given by Buffon seems hardly a probable ;—Huxley's Jfaw's Flace in Nature, p. 10, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Flower, William Henry, 1831-1899; Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915. London, A. and C. Black
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