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is generally black. The Malagasy looks upon it as the 
ancestor of his tribe, and to hunt the babakota often 
entails, at the least, the loss of hospitable treatment. They 
are numerous in the primeval forest^ they remain per- 
Bari (Lemur varius). 
fectly quiet for the greater part of the day and also 
during the night, but towards 8 o’clock in the morning 
the whole company gives vent to a perfectly infernal 
howling, which ceases at the end of about half an hour. 
