. Bird lore . ocodile of large size, not less than nine feet, and ahost of others two or three feet in length, and these bellow and grunt loudly atintervals. The most noisy creatures are the otters, some of which are six feetfrom head to tail, and which slip through the water almost as rapidly as the are a few capybaras here, but we see nothing of them except their foot-prints. A half-dozen trees on the island afford nesting-places for many species ofbirds. Yellow Orioles^ nests are common, and the Gray-breasted Martins havealready built among the rafters. Three kinds of Tyrant Flyc
. Bird lore . ocodile of large size, not less than nine feet, and ahost of others two or three feet in length, and these bellow and grunt loudly atintervals. The most noisy creatures are the otters, some of which are six feetfrom head to tail, and which slip through the water almost as rapidly as the are a few capybaras here, but we see nothing of them except their foot-prints. A half-dozen trees on the island afford nesting-places for many species ofbirds. Yellow Orioles^ nests are common, and the Gray-breasted Martins havealready built among the rafters. Three kinds of Tyrant Flycatchers and twopairs of the little Todirostrums,^ have their homes here, while a pair of GuianaHouse Wrens* are nesting in a hollow stub at the very steps of the porch. A Cottonbird,^ or Pied Ground Flycatcher, and a White-headed Tyrant® both have half-finished nests in the nearest trees, and a pair of Great Rufous Kingfishers havebored into a very poor apology for a bank nearby. At dusk, two species of Goat-. suckers begin to call. One kind says very distinctly Who are you? with theaccent on the first and last syllables, while the other species we recognize as theParauque^, from its liquid double note. Through the night, as a backgroundof sound, for the occasional noises of crocodiles and night-birds, is the never- ^Icterus xanlhornus ^Progne tapcra Todiroslrum cinereiim ^Troglodytes muscjilus clams ^ Fluvicola pica ■.1 rttndinicola leucoccpliata Ceryle torquala i Nvctidro in us alhicollis 240 Bird - Lore ceasing hum of the myriads of mosquitos, which strive to penetrate our hammocknets, and a few of which invariably manage to find their way in. Early nextmorning, with the first whistle of wings of a passing flock of Muscovy Ducks,the sun appears upon the distant savanna horizon. A loud clattering of beaksdraws our attention upward to a line of seven Jabirus flying over the house;a deep-voiced note, A-ru-co! A-rit-co! announces the presence of a HornedScreamer* be
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