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[[underline]] Alouatta palliata [[/underline]], Mar 29, 1959, 2[[roman numeral]], 24[[circled]] [[straight and hatched lines on left side of the page]] after I have put it in its cage (it is always kept in a cage by itself), just as A did. But Y also gives the Waa in other circumstances, when it seems to be uncomfortable for one reason or another. When I first got Y, in the market, I brought it back to the office in a box in the jeep. It was generally silent during this trip, but every time the jeep went around a curve, and Y was presumably thrown against the side of the box, it uttered one or more Waa notes! It also utters Waa Notes quite frequently when I hold it in my hands and mishandle it a little. And it always gives some Waa Notes, sometimes may [[many?]] of them, when I give it a bath,which it simply detests! In both the latter circumstances, the Waas may sound exactly like the Waas A used to give when abandoned, but they are often somewhat more irregular, uttered in a burst of notes of irregularly varying loudness &length, and they frequently intergrade with ordinary hostile[[?]] B (see below). In other words, in the latter two situations, Y is both diturnal and annnoyed and either one of these two reitovoits[[?]] may predominate at different times. Sometimes, when Y has been giving quite a lot of Waa Noes in my hands, and then gradually calms down, it may give one or two very squeak-like notes, quite plaintive in tone. They sound rather as if they were the lowest uiteurity[[?]] form of Waa. More important, when Y is giving both Waa Notes & ordinary B, it sometimes utters peculiar Waas which have a distinct quaver or " rattle undertone". These are very reminiscent of the more wooden-sounding trills of such species as the Woolly Monkey. Another indication that the Waa may be strictly howlogous with the Shee of the Woolly. (it may also be an indicator that the Shee of the Woolly is a generalized dutiers [[?]] call.) I also think that the "ab-tyne" B may be another dictiers [[?]]
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