. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds &c. for cabinets of natural history. Voyages and travels; Zoology; Voyages; Zoologie. TH ' They soon become very the liberty of the house, I, and appear in better pect it, they drop down id of colour not so rich, rently ananged, another I sings melodiously in I particularly favoured litting on her nest built louse, he sings for hours the forests to the culti- )p f<»' a few
. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds &c. for cabinets of natural history. Voyages and travels; Zoology; Voyages; Zoologie. TH ' They soon become very the liberty of the house, I, and appear in better pect it, they drop down id of colour not so rich, rently ananged, another I sings melodiously in I particularly favoured litting on her nest built louse, he sings for hours the forests to the culti- )p f<»' a few minutes as L the plantations, to ob- of troupiale: his wings, )lack, all the rest of the is something very sweet ragh much shorter than irior. ;;oes in flbcks from place Ivated parts at the time ripe; he is all black, which are yellow j his tending to.' is a wild fig-tree ripe, a birds, called Tangara, is !here are eighteen beau- image is very rich and ast six separate colours ; reen, and black so ''indly t would be impossible to ithers again exhibit them SECOND JOUBNBT. H(f strong, distinct, and abrupt: many of these tangaraa have a fine song. They seem to partake much of the nature of our linnets, sparrows, and finches. Some of them are fond of the plantations ; others are never seen there, preferring the wild seeds of the forest to the choicest fruits planted by the hand of man. On the same fig-trees to yrhkh they repair, 8peci"!"° a»d often accidentally up and down the forest, yoii fall in with four species of Manikin. The largest is white and l^Ack, with the feathers on the throat remarb^bly long; the next in mze is half red and half black; t^ third, black, with a white crown; the fourth, black, with a golden, crown, and red feathers at the knee. The half red and half black species is the scarcest There is a creek in the Demerara called Camouni About ten minutes from the mouth you see a common-sized fig-tree on your right hand, as you ascend, hanging over wate
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