:::n:::siK TWO BIRD-LO\TRS IN MEXICO B'""""' 



The hunters hereabouts were familiar with the 

 jaguar {tlgre), and a smaller spotted tiger cat, or 

 ocelot, which they call Jiulndari. When I described 

 the Yaguarondi, they exclaimed leoncUlo. They speak 

 of the Peccary as la haveJina. 



I was very anxious to see curassows and guans which 

 were said to be found in the jungles not far from our 

 camp, and when I described, as best I could, these birds 

 to a Mexican, lie exclaimed that there were a number 

 of tame ones at a neiirhboring: hacienda. We rode 

 there one morning, six or seven miles through thick 

 forest and marsh, I lugging my largest camera, only 

 to find, instead of the anticipated guans, a bevy of 

 gobbling domestic turkeys. The disappointment and 

 chagrin of my Mexican guide, when he saw that they 

 were not what I had ex})ected, made it impossible to 

 be out of tem})er with him. 



One day while walking quietly through a dense part 

 of the jungle, where tall, thick-leaved trees shut out 

 the light and hence caused an absence of thick under- 

 growth, I saw a bird Hy from a j)erch, catch an insect 

 in mid-air and dart back. I had not found any fly- 

 catchers heretofore in this thickly wooded section, and, 

 though my heart sank when I saw its back and wings 

 of the usual indefinite flvcatcher-hues of lioht "rav, 

 and knew that exact identification without a gun would 

 be next to impossible, I approached the bird. It again 

 flew into the air and ag-ain returned to its favourite 



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