KALACOON WILD LIFE 27T 



5:51 — Indoor martin feeds. Box martin feeds. Male comes for first 

 time, looks in and flies off. Synallaxis calls. 



5:52 — Many small swifts going towards forest. Clouds all alight with 

 brilliant rose. 



5 :53 — Box martin feeds. 



5:53^2 — Box martin feeds a large adult ant-lion to young. 



5 :54 — Box martin feeds and cleans nest. 



5 :54fY2 — Box martin feeds. 



5:55 — Tinamou trills. Aureole of gold in sky. 



5:56 — Box martin feeds. Wrens' song still the dominant one. 



5:56^ — Tinamou calls continuously. 



5 :57 — Fifteen martins come from river toward forest. 



5:58 — Pee-zing finch begins dance. 



5 :59 — Indoor martin feeds. 



5 :59^V2 — Box martin feeds. 



6 :00 — Sun a ball of gold comes out of grey cloud. Box martin feeds. 



6:01 — Tinamou still calling persistently. 



6:02 — Box martin feeds. Sun too bright to look at. Indoor martin feeds. 



6:01 — Box martin feeds and cleans nest. Toucan calling in distant jun- 

 gle. Bird voices dying down. 



6:05 — Macaws leave nest in jungle and fly over it. 



6 :06 — Synallaxis calling loudly and continuously. 



6:06^2 — Hummingbird at flower spike of air-plant. 



6:06 — Flock of twelve tanagers, palms and blues, going toward cashew 

 trees. 



6:09 — Caracara voices in distant jungle. 



6:10 — Rufous pigeon calling. 



6:11 — Male box martin feeds and rests on perch at box for thirty-one 

 minutes. Its plumage is drenched after a bath in the river. 



6:111/2^ — Six blue tanagers on way to tree. 



6:13% — Synallaxis still trilling. Pee-zing still going. 



6:15 — The coolies' soft Hindustani is heard as they go to work. Indoor 

 martin feeds. Parrakeets leave roost, going straight to forest 

 in three distinct bands, all coming from the same bamboos. 



6:18 — Female martin feeds and cleans. 



6:20 — Two very long-winged swifts toward clearing. 



6:22 — Finches feeding in numbers among grass. 



6:23 — Fog has shut out river and is surging across clearing. Valley 

 mists slowly rising. 



6:26 — Box martin feeds and rests for a moment. 



6:26l/'o — Box martin feeds and rests a few seconds. IMale still perch- 

 ing; as since 6:11. 



6:27 — Giant caciques leave roost. 



6:29 — Tanagers at intervals passing to cashew tree. Sharp voices of 

 hummingbirds heard now and then. 



6:32 — Wrens begin singing again. 



6:35- — Synallaxis trills. Nothing heard but chirps of finches. 



