. Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina . um feu manuum ungues longuli, fed rotundati : pofticorum longiorestantum non acuminati. Nates ampl^, nudfe, riibraeque. Africam incolit ha;cjpecies, in Guinea prsecipue V. E e T H E ( ao2 ) THE WOOD 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 stinders D Grinders obtuie. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. Short-tailed ferruginous-brown Baboon, bare beliind, with black face, hand-\,and feet. Wood Baboon. Pennant. Hiji: Sluadr. i. p.
. Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina . um feu manuum ungues longuli, fed rotundati : pofticorum longiorestantum non acuminati. Nates ampl^, nudfe, riibraeque. Africam incolit ha;cjpecies, in Guinea prsecipue V. E e T H E ( ao2 ) THE WOOD 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 stinders D Grinders obtuie. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. Short-tailed ferruginous-brown Baboon, bare beliind, with black face, hand-\,and feet. Wood Baboon. Pennant. Hiji: Sluadr. i. p. 176. THIS animal, which is one of tlie rareft of the genus, is of avery confiderable fize, and of a robuft frame. Its height is aboutthree feet. Its general colour a fort of ferruginous greyifli-brown, owing tothe alternate rings of blackifh and ferruginous with which each individual hairis marked, and which gives a Ibrt of fpeckled appearance, fimilar to that ofthe Simla Mormon, or Variegated Baboon, already figured in the prefentWork. The. SIMIA THE WOOD BAKOOT^T _/„„./.,. ,,//,../r,/^,./ •i;,/„^^^,^,„,„.-«^,„„,.^„.. jtfi ( i03 ) The face, hands, and feet are black. The nails on the hands longiHi, butrounded at their extremities : thofe on the feet longer, and much more in-clining to acuminate. The fpace on each fide the tail is large, bare, and tail very fliort. It is an African Ipecies, and is principally found iaGuinea. E e a . P II A- ( 204 ) PHASIANUS PICTUS. CHARACTER GENERICUS. Gen^u cute nuda laevigata. Lin. Syjl. Nat. p. 271. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS, &c. Phafianus crifta flava, pc£tore coccineo, remigibus fecundariis casruleis, cauda cuneata. Lin. Sift. Nat. p. aureus finenfis. Brijf. av. i, p. 271. ». variis coloribus fplendidus. Edw. av. 62. /. 68 Ca 69,/. 2. INTER exempla avium varia nitidiflimaque, plumarum luxuria exube-rantiuin, infigniter exftat Phafianus Piftus, cujus valentis et adulti coloresh
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