Through South America's southland; with an account of the Roosevelt Scientific Expedition to South America . ering parakeets entering and leaving theirodd communal nests in the forked branches of the largertrees on the rivers edge. All the low, marsh lands of South America are remark-able for their wealth of birdlife. But in no part of it, noteven in the lagoons and morasses which border the Metaand the Orinoco, have I ever seen such a wonderful ex-hibition of the feathered tribe as in the half-submergedregion drained by the Upper Paraguay. It is not onlya paradise for birds, but should also b
Through South America's southland; with an account of the Roosevelt Scientific Expedition to South America . ering parakeets entering and leaving theirodd communal nests in the forked branches of the largertrees on the rivers edge. All the low, marsh lands of South America are remark-able for their wealth of birdlife. But in no part of it, noteven in the lagoons and morasses which border the Metaand the Orinoco, have I ever seen such a wonderful ex-hibition of the feathered tribe as in the half-submergedregion drained by the Upper Paraguay. It is not onlya paradise for birds, but should also be a paradise forornithologists. The region has, as yet, been only partiallyexplored, and there are still many new species here to re-ward the enthusiastic field worker. And no place is moreeasily accessible. With a small motor-boat, one couldprofitably spend years studying the life-histories of thestrange and interesting birds of every kind which make * The Brazilians also call the humming-bird heija-flor—kiss-flower—whilethe Indians give it the picturesque name, coracy-aba—tresses of the sun. 452. The Nijoac ox the Upper Paraguay.
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