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ROYAL MONKEY. 
prehensile. The Royal Monkey is said to be rare 
in Brasil, but very common in Cayenne. On the 
contrary, the former species is very common in 
Brasil, but is not found in Guiana. Both species 
have the same voice and manners*. 
* The following is a description given by an observer who had 
seen and kept these animals at Cayenne : 
" The Allouates, or Howlers, inhabit the moist forests, in the 
neighbourhood of waters or marshes. They are commonly found 
in the woody islets of large flooded savannahs, and never on the 
mountains of the interior of Guiana. They go in small numbers, 
often in pairs, and sometimes singly. The cry, or rather horrible 
rattling scream, which they make, may well inspire terror ^ and 
seems as if the forests contained the united bowlings of all its sa- 
vage inhabitants together. It is commonly in the morning and 
evening that they make this clamour: they also repeat it in the 
course of the day, and sometimes in the night. The sound is so 
strong and varied, that one often imagines it produced by several 
of the animals at once, and is surprised to find only two or three, 
and sometimes only one. The AHouate seldom lives long in a 
state of captivity : it in a manner loses its voice, or at least does not 
exert it in the same manner as when wild. The male is'larger 
than the female, which latter always carries her young on her 
back. 
" Nothing is more difficult than to kill one of these animals. 
It is necessary to fire several times in order to succeed, and as long 
as the least life remains, and sometimes even after death, they re- 
main clinging to the branches by the hands and tail. The sports- 
man is often chagrined at having lost his time and ammunition for 
such wretched game ; for, in spite jsff the testimony of some tra- 
vellers, the flesh is not at all good^ it is almost always excessively 
tough, and is, therefore, excluded from all tables : it is merely the 
want of other food that can recommend it to needy inhabitants 
and travellers." 
A fig"ure of this species is given in the supplement to Buffon, 
as well as of the Preacher Monkey, but that of the latter seems not 
of equal authenticity with the former or red species. 
