:::::::::C THE HOT LANDS OF the PACIFIC B::::::::; 



forests ; while an even greater number have the habits 

 of our Brown Creepers. The Swainson Wood-hewers 



THE LAUGHING FALCON 



which we saw were so timid and silent that they were 

 difficult birds to find and to Avatch. 



The Lauo-hino- Falcons had uttered no sound within 

 our hearing, until we found them in these tropical 



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