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to them as they feed busily in the treetops; but they are exceedingly 

 watchful and usually the first intimation of their presence is the 

 sounding of an alarm by one of their number, a series of loud coughing 

 barks — "wok, wok, wok" — about twenty times repeated. This 

 seems to be given by one of the old males for the tone is much hoarser 

 and more resonant than that of the single answering calls of the others. 

 They scamper off through the treetops running along the branches 

 and leaping or swinging from one tree to another, faster than a man 

 on the ground can readily follow. On one occasion the series of alarm 

 notes was heard an hour or more after darkness had fallen over the 

 forest. 



Cercopithecus sabaeus (Linne). 



Simia sabaea Linne, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1766, 1, p. 38. 



For many years this monkey has lived in a feral state in Barbados 

 and St. Kitts, where it has been introduced from West Africa. The 

 time of its introduction is uncertain, but Ligon writing of Barbados 

 in 1673, did not mention it among the mammals of the island. It 

 probably came sometime during the next seventy-five years, for Hughes, 

 in 1750, speaks of it in his work on the natural history of the island. 



Mr. Austin H. Clark, who visited Barbados in 1903, writes me that 

 owing to the almost complete deforestation of that place, it is found 

 at only a few points. "In a patch of woodland on the Foster Hall 

 estate, near Bathsheba, St. Joseph's, it is very frequently met with, 

 especially in the early mornings after a rainy night. At such times 

 the monkeys will often sit on the larger and more exposed branches 

 of the trees and sun themselves. I once saw as many as half a dozen 

 on a single large branch in this wood. At other times they are shy 

 and secretive, but if a gun be fired anywhere in the vicinity it is 

 almost certain to bring a response in the shape of a bulldog-like growl 

 from one or more of these animals. Monkeys are also common in the 

 woods along the upper reaches of Joe's River. This species is very 

 destructive to fruit grown in the vicinity of the woods inhabited by 

 it and will also raid vegetable gardens and sweet potato patches." 



Apparently these monkeys have never been able to increase very 

 greatly in Barbados. Hughes (1750) says that they "are not very 

 numerous in this Island; They chiefly reside in inaccessible Gullies; 

 especially where there are many Fruit trees. The greatest Mischief 

 they do to the neighboring Planters is digging out of the Earth their 



