. Our search for a wilderness; an account of two ornithological expeditions to Venezuela and to British Guiana . once and whispering Baboon pointedto where a great male red howler {Mycetes seniculus)was walking slowly along a branch overhead. A care-fully aimed shot brought it to earth, stone dead. Itwas a magnificent specimen weighing just twenty poundsand the hyoid bone protruded like an exaggerated Adamsapple.* These howling monkeys are of course not really baboons,as these latter monkeys live only in the Old World and * The color of the back and sides was a light gold, shading into darkmar
. Our search for a wilderness; an account of two ornithological expeditions to Venezuela and to British Guiana . once and whispering Baboon pointedto where a great male red howler {Mycetes seniculus)was walking slowly along a branch overhead. A care-fully aimed shot brought it to earth, stone dead. Itwas a magnificent specimen weighing just twenty poundsand the hyoid bone protruded like an exaggerated Adamsapple.* These howling monkeys are of course not really baboons,as these latter monkeys live only in the Old World and * The color of the back and sides was a light gold, shading into darkmaroon or red on the head, tail and limbs. The skin of the face, ears,palms and scantily haired under parts was dark slate. The eyes were hazelbrown. The total length was 50^ inches, 25 of which consisted of the bare prehensile portion along the lower side of the tail extended n£inches backward from the tip. The forearm and hand was 16 inches long;the hind leg 18 inches. The hair of the beard was 1 J inches long. TheMonkey had been feeding on leaves and some kind of fruit with stones likecherry 326 OUR SEARCH FOR A WILDERNESS. have short tails; while the howlers are members of theAmerican family Cebidae. They are of a low type of intelligence and will not livelong in captivity, being morose and sullen, very unlike othersmaller South American primates. The hyoid bones in thethroat are enlarged to form a great thin-walled bonydrum, which is the chief instrument in the production oftheir wonderful voice. There were two females and a smaller male in this party,but I got no clear sight of the others after I shot the old in the case of the deer, tiny burying beetles began comingwithin two minutes after the blood of the baboon had beensplashed on the leaves. We had walked for ten or fifteenminutes after shooting the monkey when we heard an infan-tile roar from the remaining male. Tins the old one wouldnever have allowed, so we had an interesting example of thealmo
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