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When the driver asked, "Where?" Marmus replied quietly: "Home." "Where is your home, Monsieur?" asked the driver. "Number three," Marmus replied. "What street?" asked the driver. "Ah, you are right, my friend. But this is extraordinary," he said, taking the driver into his confidence. "I have been so busy comparing the hyoides and the caracoides yes, that's it. I will catch Sinard in the act.
The unusual strength of voice is accounted for by a peculiar drum-like construction of the os hyoides, common to all the genera of Sapajous, but more developed in some than in others; and those in whom the voice is loudest constitute the genus of Alouatles, or Howlers. Of the true howlers there are about a dozen species known to naturalists.
But, on this day, it seemed that the monkeys did not offer their prayer, for no one heard them; and, meanwhile, their voice is loud, for it is produced by the rapid vibration of a kind of bony drum, formed by a swelling of the hyoides bone in the neck.
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