. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history . ious manner, each bead being slippedon the cotton thread in its proper place as it is being patterns of these dresses are marked out with red, blue,and white beads, and they generally have an ornamentedborder. Aras.—These magnificent birds are popularly known asMacaws. The Blue and Yellow Macaw is scientifically termedAra ararauna, and the Scarlet and Blue Mac
. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history . ious manner, each bead being slippedon the cotton thread in its proper place as it is being patterns of these dresses are marked out with red, blue,and white beads, and they generally have an ornamentedborder. Aras.—These magnificent birds are popularly known asMacaws. The Blue and Yellow Macaw is scientifically termedAra ararauna, and the Scarlet and Blue Macaw is Ara birds are tamed by the natives, and kept about theirhouses, in company with spider monkeys and other long and splendid tail feathers are much used in the 366 EXPLANATORY INDEX, manufacture of head-dresses, some fine examples of whicli arein Watertons museum. Armadillo (^Dasyjms sexcincfus).—There are several speciesof Armadillo, but this is the one mentioned by Nine-banded Armadillo is called Cachicame. Arrows, Blow-gun.—These wonderful little Arrows are£.bout nine or ten inches in length, and not thicker than aladys steel knitting-needle. Indeed, these Arrows (without. ELOW-GUN ARROWS STRCNC. the poison) would answer very well for knitting. The leaf-rib of the coucourite palm is, when dry, very hard and elastic,although like steel, it combines brittleness with hardness andelasticity. It is also a heavy wood, for Arrows made of light EXPLANATOEY INDEX. 367 woods never fly true. I have made imitations of these Arrowsin many kinds of wood, and found yew to be the best. Theend which is destined to receive the poison is beautifullytapered by means of the pirai-tooth sharpener, and can, inconsequence of its hardness, be brought to a wonderfully finepoint. Owing to their very small size, a hundred or more canbe carried in the quiver, and they are arranged as shown inthe illustration, taken from my own specimens. The first illustrati
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