. The Andes and the Amazon :|bor across the continent of South America. ky Tro-gons, with glossy green backs and rose - colored breasts;long-toed Jaganas, half wader, half fowl; the rich, velvetypurple and black RhamjphoGoeliis Jacaj>a, having an im-mense range from Archidona to Para; the gallinaceousyet arboreal Ciganas; scarlet ibises, smaller, but morebeautiful than their sacred cousins of the Nile; stiltedflamingoes, whose awkwardness is atoned for by their bril-liant red plumage ; glossy black Mutums, or curassow tur-keys ; ghostly storks, white egrets, ash-colored herons, blackducks,
. The Andes and the Amazon :|bor across the continent of South America. ky Tro-gons, with glossy green backs and rose - colored breasts;long-toed Jaganas, half wader, half fowl; the rich, velvetypurple and black RhamjphoGoeliis Jacaj>a, having an im-mense range from Archidona to Para; the gallinaceousyet arboreal Ciganas; scarlet ibises, smaller, but morebeautiful than their sacred cousins of the Nile; stiltedflamingoes, whose awkwardness is atoned for by their bril-liant red plumage ; glossy black Mutums, or curassow tur-keys ; ghostly storks, white egrets, ash-colored herons, blackducks, barbets, kingfishers, sandpipers, gulls, plovers, wood-peckers, oreoles; tanagers, essentially a South Americanfamily, and, excepting thiee or four species, foimd onlyeast of the Andes; wagtails, finches, thiushes, doves, andhummers. The last, by western Indians living sunbea7nsnamed, are few, and not to be compared with the swarmsin the Andean valleys. The birds of the Amazon have no * Eeview of Watertons Wanderings in South America. Animals of the Geeat Fokest. 309. Brazilian Hummers. uniform time for breeding. The majority, however, buildtheir nests between September and New Years, and rare-ly lay more than two eggs. Amazonia, like Australia, is poor in terrestrial mam-mals, and the species are of small size. Nearly the onlygame a hunter can depend npon for food, besides toucansand macaws, is peccari. One species of tapir, to representthe elephants and rhinoceroses of the Old World; threesmall species of deer, taking the places of deer, antelopes,buffaloes, sheep, and goats of the other continent; threespecies of large Felid* ; one peccari, and a wild dog, withopossums, ant-eaters, armadilloes, sloths, squirrels (the onlyrodents which approach ours),* capybaras, pacas, agoutis,and monkeys, comprise all the quadiupeds of equatorialAmerica. The last two are the most numerous. Marsu-pial rats take the place of the insectivorous mammals. Ofant-eaters, there are at least four dis
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