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game is as easy to obtain as we found it, and when one 

 may build a house in a half a minute with a few knife 

 strokes! 



During the entire downpour we saw only a Long-tailed 

 Hummingbird 75 which unconcernedly searched the under- 

 sides of leaves for insects. Francis said its nest was hung 

 on the side of the tip of a tooroo frond. A fluted tree of 

 large size near us he called ballicusan, saying it was used 

 for making paddles like ruruli. A section 

 would look something like this: 



The folds when cut off are so thin that 

 a very little additional shaping forms them 

 into blades. 



As we were walking along after the 

 shower, several twigs fell on us, which 



would have been unnoticed by me, as FlG " I33 ' SECTION 



OF PADDLE-WOOD 



leaves and even branches are continually TREE. 

 dropping in these forests. But Francis 

 looked up at once and whispering "Baboon" pointed 

 to where a great male red howler (Mycetes scniculus) 

 was walking slowly along a branch overhead. A care- 

 fully aimed shot brought it to earth, stone dead. It 

 was a magnificent specimen weighing just twenty pounds 

 and the hyoid bone protruded like an exaggerated Adam's 

 apple.* 



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 dark 

 maroon 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 hazel 

 brown. The total length was 50^ inches, 25 of which consisted of the tail. 

 The bare prehensile portion along the lower side of the tail extended ii 

 inches backward from the tip. The forearm and hand was 16 inches long; 

 the hind leg 18 inches. The hair of the beard was if inches long. The 

 Monkey had been feeding on leaves and some kind of fruit with stones like 

 cherry pits. 



