. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds &c. for cabinets of natural history. Voyages and travels; Zoology; Voyages; Zoologie. â A*i 'B AMERICA. about an inch of the the other part of it, p, a greyish changing re are generally six or are shy and garrulous, one pkce; they are he forest, chiefly from morning, you hear a ; This is the bird ndians. It is smaller u, and seems, in some I: its head and breast mewhat resemble t
. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds &c. for cabinets of natural history. Voyages and travels; Zoology; Voyages; Zoologie. â A*i 'B AMERICA. about an inch of the the other part of it, p, a greyish changing re are generally six or are shy and garrulous, one pkce; they are he forest, chiefly from morning, you hear a ; This is the bird ndians. It is smaller u, and seems, in some I: its head and breast mewhat resemble the ts belly is a bright that it always appears is as ill adapted for , for about an inch all but this deficiency is i head drawn in upon with the cotingas on its chief nutriment it birds which follow d with bristles: it is ' the year, and makes ock dove. This bird 1 it crosses a river or ous, appearing quite a gun within twenty le branch on which it proach it so near as your bow. Perhaps SECONP JOURNEY. 107 TheCulo. there is no bird known whose feathers are so slightly fixed to the skin as those of the boclora. After shoot- ing it, if it touch a branch in its descent, or if it drop on hard ground, whole heaps of feathers fall off: on this account it is extremely hard to procure a specimen for preservation As soon as the skin is dry in the preserved specimen, the feathers become as well fixed as those in any other bird. Another species, larger than the boclora, attracts much of your notice in these wilds : it is called Cuia by the Indians, from the sound of its voice; its habits are the same as those of the boclora, but its colours different; its head, breast, back, and rump, are a shining, changing green; its tail not quite so bright; a black bar runs across the tail to- wards the extremity, and the outside feathers are partly white as in the boclora ; its belly is entirely ver- milion, a bar of white separating it from the green on the breast. There are diminutives of both th
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