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& a small one. No large ♂s or ♂ at all were in the herd apparently.
The herd scampered away thru the bamboo & were soon out of sight.  A. had no [[strikethrough]]sp[[/strikethrough]] luck or specimens today. The three genus of monkeys which we have collected here are all that occur in India or China as day animals & they are all fairly common here. The Gibbons are doubtless the rarest but as they call continuously they are the [[strikethrough]] most [[/strikethrough]] easiest to locate as [[strikethrough]]sho[[/strikethrough]] well as the most conspicuous. I saw my first palm of considerable size today in the forest. It was a maiden hair leaved species 30 feet tall with a straight stem 10 inches in diameter.
[[circled]]5[[/circled]] Another day was spent hunting monkeys. I met the Semnopithecus in the same trees near the road but they scampered away on my first shot & I failed to get any. Several I saw appeared to have orange bellies but later I discovered on