FURRY ANIMALS 



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noise and confusion through the daytime must 

 have driven the more nervous animals as far 

 away as the island would let them go. 



We found in our wanderings about the island 

 three different groups of black howling monkeys. 



After Alston 



Fig. 74. Black Jiowling monkey 



A male and four females came through the tree 

 tops one morning to watch Santiago driving 

 spikes up the sand-box tree. Another day, when 

 there were visitors from Boston on the island, we 

 followed the howling of a monkey until we found 

 him with two females in the top of a tall tree, well 

 hung with lianas. 



