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Mr. J. S. Budaett on the 



banks teeming with bird-life amongst the dense tropical 

 vegetation of every description, which extended as far as 

 our destination and remained luxuriantly green throughout 



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the year. The country farther inland is, in the dry season, 

 somewhat sparsely covered with almost leafless trees, and 

 there being little to attract the ornithologist in the scorched- 



