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Rio's great bay, lined with beaches of dazzling white sand, and guarded by its 

 incredible green, gently sloping mountains. 



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Above: Brazil's celebrated naturalist, Dr. Augusta Ruschi, watches 

 a tuxedo hummingbird feed on sugar water. Thousands of them 

 come daily to the Ruschi veranda. Below: Tiny egg of a Vene- 

 zuelan hummingbird lies in a nest built in a small Bromelia spe- 

 cies, Neoregelia punctatissima, which grow in a hanging linked 

 series. 



Story and photos by Phil Clark 



Brazil, South American giant among nations, is a land 

 of jewels of earth and air and water. Its brilliant diamonds 

 and deep green tourmalines, its magnificent wildlife — 

 gem-colored hummingbirds, iridescent macaws, jet-striped 

 angelfish and pearl-toned piranhas — only begin to reflect 

 the color and variety to be found in this country. 



Home of boundless varieties of plants and flowering 

 trees, the face of Brazil ranges from cosmopolitan cities to 

 jungle villages, from shimmering white beaches flanked 

 by sugarloaf mountains to immense and mysterious rain- 

 forests and rivers that flow thousands of miles, in places 

 tumbling over waterfalls that dwarf Niagara. 



The people of Brazil are like their many-faceted coun- 

 try. They encompass many of the world's races, mingling 

 yet retaining diversity, vibrant and creative, yet gentle and 

 easy-going, capable of both sustained artistic originality 

 and the spontaneous joy of Carnival. 



Here is natural history in all its vitality and variety. 

 This is Brazil, big, exciting, a nation of color and motion — 

 the ideal site for a Field Museum Natural History Tour. 



Bahia 



Your first stop on the 26-day tour, is in Bahia. The 

 trip begins on Friday, February 14, from O'Hare Field to 

 New York where you board a Varig jet, arriving in Brazil 

 early the next morning. 



In Bahia, in the white and pastel-painted colonial town 

 of Salvador, where on Todos os Santos Bay Portuguese 

 discoverers of Brazil first landed, your arrival coincides 



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