Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina (1792) (14563189669)

Identifier: museileverianiex121792shaw (find matches)
Title: Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina
Year: 1792 (1790s)
Authors: Shaw, George, 1751-1813 Ryley, Charles Reuben, 1752?-1798, ill Reinagle, Philip, 1749-1833, ill Stone, Sarah, ca. 1760-1844, ill Skelton, William, 1763-1848, engraver Edwards, Sydenham, 1769?-1819, engraver
Subjects: Lever, Ashton, Sir, 1729-1788 Leverian Museum (London, England) Zoology Natural history museums Mammals Birds
Publisher: (London) : Impensis Jacobi Parkinson
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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eciem cum Papione Sphinge Linnsei, a quo tamen lon-giffime diftat, quemque vix alium crediderim ab iilo qui Papio vulgarisdicitur. THE ( 38 ) 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, Sec. Short-tailed whifkered Baboon, bare behind, with pointed nails, and violet-coloured loins. Great Baboon. Pennant, ^ladr. p. 173. Variegated Baboon. Naturalijls Mijcellany, fl. 48. FR O M a confufion and mifapplication of fynonyms, which, in fo extenfivea work as that of the Syftema Naturas of Linnaeus, feems almoft un-avoidable, it has happened that the fpecies of Baboon here reprefented hasbeen confounded with one really different, though very much refembling it.The fpecies alluded to is the Simla Maimon of Linn£eus, which, except infize and vivid colours, bears the higheft general refemblance to our prefentanimal. This 3-
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■A/- SiMi^ Mojrm:oit = The irADa.iE ib^ajbooih. JWA.ia- tAe^cCdtrw», Jany/J/^/. (y J-Jar/citt/hnXei,(nanJUuAm/i C 39 )This very curious creature may be confidered as one of the rarell of itstribe, and is not often to be feen in Europe. It is however fometimes ob-tained, and exJiibits at once the moft beautiful and Hvely colours of any fpe-cies yet known, and at the fame time an appearance in the higheft degreeAngular and ftriking. It is an animal of very confiderablc fize, having beenfometimes fcen more than five feet high. Its form is uncommonly ftrongand mufcular, while die great length and thicknefs of the hair on thefuperior parts of the body ftill adds to this appearance of ftrength and vi-gour. The eyes (which are placed very clofe or near each other,) are of adeep hazel. Down the middle of the nofe from the eyes runs a broad bandof vivid vermilion red, which difFufes itfelf over the tip of the fnout, whichhas a fomewhat abrupt termination, in fome degree ap