. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history . to the performance, one can detect a voice at a much higherkey than the others, especially in the dying-away Indians say this is made by a dwarf monkey of the samefamily which accompanies every troop. I was of the opinionthat it was the voice of a female Howler, but the Indians,who are very careful observers, said it was not. With theirblack negro-like faces
. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history . to the performance, one can detect a voice at a much higherkey than the others, especially in the dying-away Indians say this is made by a dwarf monkey of the samefamily which accompanies every troop. I was of the opinionthat it was the voice of a female Howler, but the Indians,who are very careful observers, said it was not. With theirblack negro-like faces, and long red beards covering the bonyhowling apparatus below their throats, they are curious-looking creatures. Some specimens of the Red Howler which were brought to EXPLANATORY INDEX. 423 England, exhibited the peculiar structure of the throat mostadmirably. When the monkey opens its mouth, the de-velopment of the hyoid bone is easily seen. It forms akind of bony drum communicating with the wind-pipe, andenabling the animal to emit those horrid yells which haveearned for it the popular name of Howler. The reader is here requested to look at the note upon the %. KABABIMITC. Humming-bird, Ara, or Karabimiti {Topaza pella), some-times called the Crimson Topaz.—This is one of two hum-ming-birds which are distinguishable by the length of twotail-feathers, which are supposed to resemble the elongatedtails of the aras or macaws. The other species is the fierytopaz (Topazapyra)^ so called because the general colour ofthe bird is flaming scarlet instead of the rich crimson whichdistinguishes the Karabimiti. The food of the humming-birds was long a matter of 424 EXPLANATORY INDEX. uncertainty, but has been definitively settled by Watertonand other practical naturalists who came after him. Neither the monkey nor the humming bird, on account ofthe formation of the feet in this, and of the hands in that,can labour on the ground for their food. Yet, when they arein the ri
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