. Our search for a wilderness; an account of two ornithological expeditions to Venezuela and to British Guiana . Manakins,109 clad in shiningblack save for their snowy caps. Their flight, unlike theirwhite-breasted cousins which we met in Venezuela, wasnoiseless. They were far from silent however, twangingtheir little vocal chords in an apology for a song — a wheezy,grasshopper-like buzz. The females were silent, sombrelittle beings — dull olive green above, with a grayish capand paler below. After lunch at one oclock in the afternoon, I started outagain and climbed to the summit of a densely
. Our search for a wilderness; an account of two ornithological expeditions to Venezuela and to British Guiana . Manakins,109 clad in shiningblack save for their snowy caps. Their flight, unlike theirwhite-breasted cousins which we met in Venezuela, wasnoiseless. They were far from silent however, twangingtheir little vocal chords in an apology for a song — a wheezy,grasshopper-like buzz. The females were silent, sombrelittle beings — dull olive green above, with a grayish capand paler below. After lunch at one oclock in the afternoon, I started outagain and climbed to the summit of a densely forested hill,southeast of the mine clearing. The tree-tops were filledwiih birds and not for a moment was I entirely out of sightor sound of one or more species. A few yards from the clear-ing I followed up an excited cackling and found a pair ofsplendid Red-crested They had a nest in 312 OUR SEARCH FOR A WILDERNESS. a tall dead stub and were trying to dislodge an iguana whichwas steadily crawling up a neighboring branch. A momentafter I came into sight one of them struck the lizard with. ^ Fro. 131. Agouti. (Photo by Sanborn.) its w ings, whereupon the iguana reared up and lunged withopen mouth, the birds then ceasing their attack upon theinoffensive saurian. What splendid birds the Woodpeckers are — strong, active,full of vitality and enthusiasm over life. These were big fel- JUNGLE LIFE AT AREMU. 313 lows, black above, variegated on shoulders and head withwhite; thickly barred below and with a long crest of blazingscarlet. They spent much of their time near the bungalow,and when they drummed steadily their scarlet head-plumesseemed a living flaming haze. Near the summit of the hill a tall Silverballi had been felledand sawed by hand into boards. This had made a smallclearing like the one I visited yesterday. The trees werefilled with many species of birds attracted by the abundantinsect life, some of which I knew and made notes upon,while most were unkn
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