INDEX 



Cuckoos, see Anum. 



Cucujo, see Fireflies, Luminous Beetles. 



Cumbani, Dipteryx odorata (Leguminosae), 77 



Cupim, see Termites. 



Cupim ants, Leptogenys, 321 



Curutid, Synallaxis cinnamomea (PI. 28, 19), known also as Cazaca di couro, or 



Sacy-Perere, 86, 161, 251 

 Cuti^ or Agouti, Dasyprocta aguti and azarae, 136, 173 

 Cuyabana, Pronolepis fulva. See report by G. Morevia, Entomologia Agricola Brasi- 



leira, Rio de Janeiro, 1921, 321 



Danaidae, 163, 164, 220 



Death's head monkey, Saimiri sciureus, 1 74 



Decker, Siegfried. ^zWiSao Paulos Gartenwelt. Gartenschonheit, Berlin, March 1923.98 



Deer. The largest species of South America deer is the Swamp-deer, the "Cervo," 

 equal in size to the European Red Deer, but with forked antlers, each point 

 or limb being further ramified (Odocoilus dichotomus). On the open 

 grassy plains lives the Pampas Deer or Veado branco (Odocoilus bezo- 

 arcticus), the size of a Roebuck, with low, complex antlers. The Guemals 

 (Hippocamelas) are found more in the Andes and Patagonia; but the 

 Brockets are genuinely Brazilian. With their unbranched spikes of antlers 

 and their very small, slender bodies they remind one of antelopes ; but the 

 Brazilians call the Brocket a Roebuck, Veado. There is a grey Brocket 

 (Mazama nemorivaga) on the plains and a red Brocket (Mazama rufa) in 

 the bush and forest. 177, 267 



Dendroblum (Orchids), 105 



Didonis, 217 



Dinoponera (ant), 323 



Dione moneta, 207 



Dirt-bug, Opisicoctus (Reduvius) personatus, 351 



Dismorphia, 219 



Diver, Podylimnus podiceps. The beak has two cross-bands, and a black streak 

 runs to the eye, so that the face has a mask-like aspect. 1 1 9 



Dolphins. There is a special dolphin which frequents the brackish water of bays 

 and estuaries (SotaUa brasiliensis). In the Amazon and other rivers of 

 South America is a fresh-water Dolphin with a beak-Uke snout. This 

 species is known as Inia or Bufeo (Inia geoffroyensis), 49 



Dragonflies, with red wings, Heterina pudica, with golden-yellow wings, black at 

 the tips, Thore boliviana, 207, 261, 280 



Dragon-tree, Dracaena marginata and Cordyline terminalis, with handsomely 

 marked leaves. Humboldt's description of the Dragon-tree of TenerifTe is 

 well known. The age of this tree was formerly estimated to be 5,000 to 

 6,000 years. 134 



Driver Ants, see Migratory Ants. 



Drones, 299 



Ducks, Cabocia duck, Dendrocygna discolor. Its relative, the Marreca-apahy, D. 

 viduata, has a white head and black neck. In Southern Brazil and the 

 Argentine is found the pretty Blue-winged Duck, Querquedula cyanoptera. 



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 Dung-beetles. Most of the Scarabaeidae of Brazil belong to the genus Phanaeus, 287 



Eciton, see Migratory Ants. 



Eclectus pectoralis, New Guinea parrot, 215 



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