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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
RED'S HAIR IS LONG AND SILKY 
The thick pelage extends to the tip of his tail, 'covering it completely except the under, prehensile part. 
me to think that the trouble with captive mon¬ 
keys of that type has been largely mental. Miss 
Cunningham’s valuable article in the Bulletin 
on the gorilla, John Daniel, points to a similar 
condition. 
As is naturally the case with all young mon¬ 
keys, Rbd was occasionally ill, but his only 
troubles that we were able to note were colds 
and dysentery. During the two winters he has 
been with us he developed a severe “cold in 
the head” about twice each winter season, and 
appeared quite miserable sneezing and wheez¬ 
ing. In each instance we have quickly cured 
him by thoroughly rubbing his nose with cam¬ 
phorated vaseline and swabbing bis nostrils with 
the same, using a tuft of cotton on a blunted 
toothpick. Besides doing this we rubbed his 
breast with warmed camphorated oil, then kept 
him quiet, in a warm place. Dysentery is a 
more serious matter and with all monkeys 
should receive immediate and careful attention. 
We at once stopped giving him any heavy food 
and alternately gave him subnitrate of bismuth 
and bicarbonate of soda. The dose of each 
was. about as much as could be scooped up on 
the rounded end of a large penknife blade and 
dissolved in about half a wineglassful of water. 
We also gave him tea to drink instead of plain 
water. Tea is much used among the Chinese 
animal dealers in caring for orang-utans and 
preventing dysentery. 
As is probably the case with all howlers, 
our specimen is absolutely unable to endure 
cold. I believe that if Red were exposed to a 
temperature as low as forty degrees he would 
soon perish. He detests the winter, and if the 
temperature of our living rooms goes even a few 
degrees below seventy, he crawls under cushions 
to hide or squeezes close to the radiators, his 
arms upraised in order to expose his breast to 
the heat. If he is cold he will not eat, arwl dur¬ 
ing the present winter we have knitted him a 
woolen jacket, which he greatly enjoys and in 
which he bravely goes exploring the house in 
the early morning, before the heating boiler has 
been looked after, and the radiators, which have 
been chilled by bedroom windows being open, 
have attained the heat of the daytime. 
As this article is intended to present points 
of information that may be new in the study 
of monkeys, it is important to cite a few obser¬ 
vations of our howler’s habits. One thing we 
have discovered which may be valuable as a 
scientific record, and that is, the surprising 
