. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, and 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, &c. for cabinets of natural history. Zoology; Zoologie. ** I m m' I |. f^Si 17(J WANDERINGS IN Third " And matted woods, where birds forget to sing, ""'â '*â â But silent bats in drowsy clusters ; The Vampire has a curious ineuibranc, which rises from the uose, and gives it a very singuhir appearance. It has been rcnuirkecl before, that there are two speci
. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, and 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, &c. for cabinets of natural history. Zoology; Zoologie. ** I m m' I |. f^Si 17(J WANDERINGS IN Third " And matted woods, where birds forget to sing, ""'â '*â â But silent bats in drowsy clusters ; The Vampire has a curious ineuibranc, which rises from the uose, and gives it a very singuhir appearance. It has been rcnuirkecl before, that there are two species of Vampire in Guiana, a hirfrer and a smaller. The larger sucks men and other aninmls ; the snuiller seems to con- fine himself chietly to birds. I learnt from a gentleman, high up in the river Demcrara, that he was comj)letely imsucccssful with his foAvls, on account of the small Vampire. He showed me some that had been sucked the night before, and they were scarcely able to walk. Anecdote. Somc years ago I Mcnt to the river Paumaron with a Scotch gentleman, by name Tarbet. We hung oiu* ham- mocks in the thatchetl loft of a planter's house. Next morning I heard this gentleman muttering in his ham- mock, and now and then letting full an imprecation or two, just about the time he ought to have been saying his morning prayers. " What is the n\atter, Sir," said I, softly; " is any thing amiss?" " What's the mat- ter?" answered he, surlily ; " why, the Vampires have been sucking mc to ; As soon as there was light enough, 1 went to his hammock, and saw it much stained with blood. *' There," said he, thrusting his foot out of the hammock, *' see how these infernal imps hav.; been drawing my life's ; On examining his i. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble
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