. 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 . etimes it is called theWallaba Bird. Cricket.—^Waterton uses the colloquial term. The so-calledCrickets are in fact Cicadas, several species of which arecommon in the southern parts of Europe. Only one Britishspecies is known, and may be found in the jSTew Forest. InGuiana, the Cicadas attain a very large size, and their cry hasbeen compared to the whistle of a railway
. 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 . etimes it is called theWallaba Bird. Cricket.—^Waterton uses the colloquial term. The so-calledCrickets are in fact Cicadas, several species of which arecommon in the southern parts of Europe. Only one Britishspecies is known, and may be found in the jSTew Forest. InGuiana, the Cicadas attain a very large size, and their cry hasbeen compared to the whistle of a railway engine. Cuckoo, Metallic {Coccygus Americanus). Curlew, Scarlet.—Waterton here employs the colloquialname for the Scarlet Ibis (^Tantalus^ Ibis rubra). There are several species of Ibis, the most familiar beingthe sacred Ibis of Egypt, which figures so largely in theancient Egyptian sculptures and paintings. This is but a dullbird in colour, being only white and black, and with a neckquite bare of feathers, and looking as if made of a very oldand very crumpled black kid glove. The Scarlet Ibis, however, is far more beautiful than any ofits congeners, being of a most brilliant scarlet, with a fewpatches of jet SCARLET CURLEW. The accompanying illustration represents one of these birdsat it appeared when sunning itself in the Zoological bowed its head until the tip of the curved beak nearly 402 EXPLANATORY INDEX. touched the ground, half opened its wings, thrust themforward, and kept up a tremulous movement of the feathersover the whole body. The bird is mostly found along thecoasts. Another species, the River Ibis [Ihis infuscatus), is fovmd,as its name imports, on the rivers of Guiana. It is laigerthan its scarlet relative, but is not nearly so handsome, beingdull olive-green, with light green legs and beak. It goes bythe popular name of Curi-curi, in consequence of its cry, whichis said to resemble these words. D. Deek. — Several species of Deer inhabi
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