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also looks eventually suitable for torquatus. And, again according to guide torquatus inds. have indeed been seen here!!!

12:15 pm. Region nature forest on "plateau" Lots of [[?]] and fair number of tangles. See single Saki 60 ft up in tall tree. Sees us and flees silently Running and leaping horizontally.

Note: A few minutes later, guide hears another Saki about 50 yds away. Obviously a pair and scattered as usual!

Go on most of the afternoon without seeing anything more of interest. I.E all primates quiet as usual. I imagine that the population of most monkeys are so reduced by hunting here that there food has become "superabundant." Therefore they can afford to rest most of the day.

NOTES: Our guide says that both the "large Chichicos negros"(ie. Callimico) and the "Tangues negros"(ie. Cebus apella) are found "up" the Rio Putumayo not far from Puerto Umbria. Also that both Woollies and Red Howlers can be found not far from where we have seen Sakis and moloch, but only early in the morning.

CORRECTION: Mixed flocks of birds were very common in the forest all day today.(Birds do not seem to show the same post meridian lull as the monkeys. Presumably because their food is not superabundant.)