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an uncut tropical forest, my first care would be to 

 have miles of such trails cut. 



Here along this new trail I found the motmot 

 (Fig. 66), a green-and-brown bird about the size 



Fig. 66. Motmot 



of a blue jay. It had flown silently across the 

 cleared space and was sitting in a jungle bush 

 twenty feet above my head, its green back fad- 

 ing away into the green of the leaves. Suddenly 

 it jerked its tail sideways and the movement 

 attracted my eye. Soon it repeated the gesture 

 as if to call attention to its remarkable tail. The 



