CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Dedication VII 



Introduction by Colonel Theodork Roosevelt IX 



Preface XIII 



PART I— By William Beebe. 



I — Establishment of the Tropical Research Station 23 



II — Historical Bartica 31 



III — The Naturalists of Bartica District 38 



IV — The General Field of Work 43 



V — The Open Clearing and Secondgrowth 51 



VI — The Jungle and Its Life 69 



VII — The Bird Tife of Bartica District 91 



VIII — List of the Birds of Bartica District 127 



IX — Akawai Indian and Colonial Names of Birds and 



Mammals of Bartica 138 



X — Methods of Research 147 



XI — Further Notes on the Life History of Hoatzins 155 



XII — The Homes of Toucans 183 



XIII — Ornithological Discoveries _ 211 



XIV — Young Grey-backed Trumpeters 247 



XV — The Ways of Tinamou 253 



XVI — Wild Life near Kalacoon 271 



XVII— The Alligators of Guiana 283 



PART II — By G. Inness Hartley. 



XVI II — Notes on the Development of the Jacana 293 



XIX — Notes on the Development of the Smooth-billed 



Ani 307 



XX — Notes on a Few Embryos 321 



XXI — Nesting Habits of the Grey-breasted Martin 328 



XXII — Preliminary Notes on the Development of the 



Wing 342 



XXIII — Notes on the Perai Fish 359 



