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Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Leistes, also came toclose quarters, though it did not sing, and I watched the lovely and delicatelittle black-and-white marsh Flycatchers almost at arms length. There is a creature in the South American forests which, though not abird, ranks easily first as a maker of weird noises. I have read many descrip-tions of his performance, but was not in the least prepared for the reality whenI actually heard it, nor did I even recognize it. This is the roaring of theso-called howling monkey. To my mind, howling is a sort of eerie, rising-andfalling noise, far different from the deep-voiced, business-like, bellowingroar that is the predominant feature of this little animals performance. It isat least a hundred times more thunderous and terrible than would seem pos-sible from a creature somewhat larger than a big tom-cat. I had heard themin the distance a number of times, but it was at Rio Frio, on the Cauca River,where our little stern-wheeler was taking wood, that I first got close to them
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CRESTED CURASSOW 428 Bird- Lore

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