. Our search for a wilderness; an account of two ornithological expeditions to Venezuela and to British Guiana . eared in numbers, bringing fish, rubber and otherthings for trade to the little Chinese store. Morawhanna itselfconsists of a straggling line of thatched huts extendingirregularly along the bank and inland between the marshyspots. A short walk on shore showed the inhabitants to be Indians,blacks and half-breeds. Birds were abundant, especiallyYellow-bellied Callistes,142 Honey Creepers, Tanagers, andthe four commoner species of Kiskadee Tyrants 101 • 103,104, large Skimmer17 f
. Our search for a wilderness; an account of two ornithological expeditions to Venezuela and to British Guiana . eared in numbers, bringing fish, rubber and otherthings for trade to the little Chinese store. Morawhanna itselfconsists of a straggling line of thatched huts extendingirregularly along the bank and inland between the marshyspots. A short walk on shore showed the inhabitants to be Indians,blacks and half-breeds. Birds were abundant, especiallyYellow-bellied Callistes,142 Honey Creepers, Tanagers, andthe four commoner species of Kiskadee Tyrants 101 • 103,104, large Skimmer17 flew past the boat and later we sawseveral flocks. We expected to meet the launch from the Hoorie Mine, butas it had not yet arrived, we boarded the steamer again andwent on with it to the end of its route at Mount left Morawhanna at half-pa-t ten in the morning andreached our destination five hours later. Although all thiscountry i> low and marshy, yet the White Mangrove and theCourida, or Red Mangrove, here give place to a variegatedforest growth, and we soon saw our first Mora trees,- huge. Fig. 68. Typical Indian House at Morawhanna. STEAMER AND LAUNCH TO HOORIE CREEK. 137 we thought them, but to be dwarfed by the inland giants ofour succeeding expeditions. The walls of vegetation wereseventy or eighty feet in height, draped by vines, while deadbranches protruded here and there from the water near Snake-birds48 were perched on these snags, fromwhich they dropped silently into the water at our approachand swam off with body immersed. Blue-and-Yellow Macaws61 were common — always asusual in multiples of two. We observed them a half dozentimes in different reaches of the river, four in the first group,then eight, two, six, four and two. A trio of AmericanEgrets 32 kept flying ahead of us for several miles, hemmedin by the lofty walls of foliage, alighting now and then andwaiting for the steamer. At last when only ten yards dis-tant they rose and flo
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