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  Starting again this afternoon 1:35pm. Clear and sunny. Wind coming up. But doesn't reach forest floor. Very hot. Following a different path from this morning.

  3:03pm. Region of very mixed but on the whole mature forest. See family of Sakis. 2 adults and 1 half grown young. Running and leaping thru trees (including one palm) 30-50 ft up. Young moving independently. All quite silent. Disappear almost immediately. 

  A few yards further on, see single gray-brown Pygmy Squirrel 15 ft up in tree.  Silent and alone.

  3:27pm. Arrive at something which the natives call "salado." A swamp. From which a stream emerges. According to the guide, Red Howlers come down to the ground to drink from the salado swamp waters! He also has seen C. apella and C. albifrons in adjacent trees.

  Observations stop 4:40pm

September 8, 1968
La Desco

  Start out 6:05. Cloudy. Light rain starts. Then stops. But forest is just dripping. And we walk a very long time without seeing any animals of any sort.

  This would seem to indicate that all the monkeys around here are discouraged by rain!

  Then it really begins to pour rain. And continues