. Our search for a wilderness; an account of two ornithological expeditions to Venezuela and to British Guiana . and then clinching and falling to earth,w here they clung together claw to claw, and pecked viciouslyand in -ileiw e, their beautiful plumage disheveled and lady —heartless cause of all this terrible strife cheeped in low tones overhead and nonchalantly plucked invisibledainties from the undersides of leaves. I took a step towardthe combatants and they separated and vanished, the lady,be it noted, following swiftly in their wake. Close upon this melodrama came a fairy Man
. Our search for a wilderness; an account of two ornithological expeditions to Venezuela and to British Guiana . and then clinching and falling to earth,w here they clung together claw to claw, and pecked viciouslyand in -ileiw e, their beautiful plumage disheveled and lady —heartless cause of all this terrible strife cheeped in low tones overhead and nonchalantly plucked invisibledainties from the undersides of leaves. I took a step towardthe combatants and they separated and vanished, the lady,be it noted, following swiftly in their wake. Close upon this melodrama came a fairy Manakin, blackwith a conspicuous white chin. I never saw another and< annol identify it, distinctly marked though it was. Throughthe forest came the low belling of Green Cassiques; 160 then JUNGLE LIFE AT AREMU. 299 no sound save the drowsy hum of insects high most frequent noise came from falling leaves, twigs andbranches — yes, leaves, for gently as a falling leaf ; in thistropic world might mean, like the stroke of a sledge ham-mer! ; The realization comes again, as a yellow leaf eddies. Fig. 129. Aerial Roots of Bush-rope. past my scat, that autumn is distributed throughout the wholeyear, while the freshly opening pink and reddish shoots onevery hand show that spring is never absent. I observed something circling about in an opening to myleft and on examining it found a peculiar Hat cake-like waspnest, with the solitary pair of owners (Polybia sp.) on the rim. 300 OUR SEARCH FOR A WILDERNESS. It was attached to the extremity of a long, slender bush-thread dangling from a great distance above. There wasnot a breath of air and the secret of the circling motion —the nest moving irregularly in an ellipse of about ten feet —was not solved until with my glasses I made out a smallmonkey — a marmoset apparently — clinging to a branchnear where the bush-thread started. The little creature hadfound some store of food in a hollow or crevice of the get
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