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In the evening I walked up the road to the woods 
and shot a couple of Bats. I also saw a small Goatsucker 
( Lurocalis ) v^hich rose straight upward against the sky, 
caught an insect, turned and plunged dovraward into the gloom 
before I could fire. 
At daybreak this morning the Monkeys roared much 
nearer to the house than we have before heard them. Carr 
said that they were within a mile of us. We could distinctly 
hear the different notes of the roar, whereas previously it 
a medley 
has been merely/of sound. The opening notes sounded like 
bub-bub-bub-bub-bub . followed by a prolonged roar, Mr, 
Chapman suggested that the general effect was not unlike 
that of a number of hogs when about to be fed. Carr agreed 
to this but it did not strike me as a happy comparison, 
although I could make out a slight resemblance. 
For the past four or five evenings we have heard 
in the high woods nea.r the road a prolonged screeching 
which almost exactly resembles the sound of a distant steam 
whistle. This is made by a Cicada which is called the 
"six o’clock bug". It begins very regularly within ten 
minutes of 6 P. M. and continues until dark or later. 
Near at hand one hears a short prelude to the whistle, con¬ 
sisting first of a low slow rattle and then of a frying 
sound which runs directly into the screech. 
