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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
something out of the ordinary course had to be 
done. Director Hornadav was consulted, and 
at once his decision was to turn the care of the 
new arrival over to me. 
The fiery hue of the little stranger at once 
suggested a name, so we called him “Red.” As 
we drove up home to Searsdale with Red 
buttoned in my fur coat, his big shiny eyes set 
in a jet black face frequently glanced up at me 
in interrogation. That was his last day in a 
cage. He has been free ever since, and is ab¬ 
solutely different in habits from any other mon¬ 
key we have ever had at home—and we have 
reared a number of interesting kinds. 
To start properly, I gave the newcomer a 
warm bath and noted the following facts: 
Red’s estimated age was three months. His 
total length, including body and tail, w r as 15 
inches. The general color of skin was very dark 
brown, except the face, hands and feet, which 
were black. His back was covered with thick, 
silky hair, ranging from brown to rusty red. His 
tail and stomach region were devoid of hair. The 
eyes were very large and intelligent, and at first 
were of a bluish hue. A month later they turned 
to very dark brown. The teeth were extremely 
small, regular and white, with no indication of 
canine enlargement. Two fingers in the right 
hand had been broken and stiffened in knitting. 
There were indications of a break of the verte¬ 
brae in the terminal half of the tail. All these 
injuries probably occurred in the fall from the 
tree. 
As Red had appeared to do well on the diet 
selected by Mrs. Emerson, we followed about 
the same schedule. Sufficient of the prepared 
barley to make three meals was thoroughly 
boiled eacli morning. With each morning and 
evening meal we gave him about a wineglassful 
of milk, slightly warmed; and this he greatly 
relished. 
After about a month he tired of the barley, 
and also refused strained oatmeal, rice, and in 
fact all the standard cereals. It seemed alto¬ 
gether wrong to give this interesting baby 
heavier foods than milk or cereal. In order to 
get him to eat at all it was necessary to cut 
bits of banana, apple or cooked raisins and mix 
them with the barley. Infant though he was, 
he screamed and reached for the banana and 
apple, and neither appeared to harm him. As 
he grew tired of the cereal, the milk was in¬ 
creased to three small glasses per day. He 
grew voraciously fond of it, and after a meal 
his outline would be distinctly changed, his 
little round stomach being shiny with dis¬ 
tension. 
RED WHEN THREE MONTHS OLD 
His eyes first were of a bluish tinge, then gradually changed 
to daik brown. 
In March, 1921, there were signs of trouble. 
Red was now approximately six months old, 
and had grown two inches, but was not de¬ 
veloping satisfactorily. There were indications 
of rickets, or what among monkeys is called 
“cage paralysis.” This comes from a softening 
of the bones and is due to a lack of lime and 
bone nourishment. In some species of monkeys 
it seldom develops, yet other kinds, maintained 
upon the same diet quickly show this condition, 
owing to the absence of the bone-building ma¬ 
terial so essential to infants of all kinds. I 
have reared several Java macaques from the 
baby stage, a Burmese pigtail and a sooty mang- 
abey. They were given strained cereals, a 
little fruit, stale bread and plenty of milk. 
None ever showed signs of rickets, but clearly, 
the diet of such monkeys would never do for 
the howler. 
My father and I discussed the matter and 
decided to substitute meat broths for the cereal; 
and here we made a discovery. Red was raven¬ 
ously interested, and in feeding him some of 
the broth a bit of meat was caught in the spoon. 
His manifestation of joy over this fragment of 
meat surpassed all former interests in other 
foods. He reached frantically into the bowl 
for more, and then I decided to make a bold 
experiment. I had a piece of beef broiled for 
him and he devoured every shred of it, mum¬ 
bling and grunting in a fashion that he exhibited 
only when especially pleased. 
