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hand to take out the eggs; then I saw with astonishment that the 

 mother had glued them firmly to the nest. And as I examined 

 newly-hatched, tiny, helpless young birds, I saw, with increasing 

 astonishment, that they, too, were attached to the nest in the same 

 way, and were thus secured from falling out. 



Apart from the birds, which continually attract the naturalist's 



Fig. 32. Long-tailed Monkeys. 



attention by their omnipresence, beauty, vivacity and nimbleness, 

 as well as by their songs, or rather cries; apart also from the very 

 numerous lizards and snakes, or the abundant insects, even a care- 

 ful observer can see very little of the other denizens of the primeval 

 forest, and especially little of its mammals. But one can hardly fail to 

 see a band of long-tailed monkeys, for the liveliness and restlessness 

 characteristic of these and of all the African monkeys is sure to 

 bring them sooner or later before the most unobservant eye, and 

 their continual gurgling noises must reach the ear; yet one may 



