mycetes

While the strange, harsh voice of the goatsucker is hushed, the mycetes has ceased to howl, and no roar of jaguar is heard, a few slow, sweet, and mellow notes reach the ear, following one another like the commencement of an air.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

They take a large nut, and scraping out the interior, leave only a small mouth, and, filling it with sugar, leave it near the trees inhabited by the mycetes.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

The alligator, far from being a silent animal, as is generally supposed, makes a hideous noise at times, bellowing with so singular a cadence and loud a din, that he can even outroar the jaguars and mycetes.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

It is the mycetes, or ursine howler -- the largest monkey of South America.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

These unmusical howlings are supposed by some naturalists to be merely the nocturnal serenades of lover mycetes addressed to their mistresses, seated high on the branches in some distant part of the forest; others regard them rather as noises which serve to intimidate their enemies, though not emitted in general for any sudden alarm.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847