KALACOON WILD LIFE 279 



concerted attack by the palm tanagers drove it to leave its 

 perch and fly junglewards. 



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Our study of the two dry and the two rainy seasons has 

 only begun. This first year we were able to make only the 

 merest beginning. As a hint of one method of w^ork, how- 

 ever, as well as putting on record many incidents of interest, 

 I shall print the daily calendar which we kept from June 

 15 to August 6. The specimens are all kept for ultimate 

 identification. 



June 15th — Weaned fawn of large deer captured. White-throated thrush 

 breeding. Allied crested tanager with two nearly grown 

 young. 



June 16th — Amazon parrots in flocks. Camaria lepidoptera at lowest 

 ebb; only three species of morphos. 



June 17th — Capuchin embryo 4/5 developed. Variegated tinamou, nest 

 and one egg; an embryo of four days. Spot-winged ant- 

 creeper with full-grown young. 



June 18th — Lizards courting and mating (green-headed striped species; 

 grey). Fresh brood of banded morphos. 



June 19th — Fork-tailed flycatchers in full molt. 



June 20th — Big black bumble bee beginning to burrow. Tree-top flock- 

 ing of birds almost at highest point of numbers. Blue 

 honey-creeper in full molt. Lace-winged wax insects 

 freshly emerged on trunks. 



June 21st — Immense brood of small fireflies. Several young howlers 

 just able to climb alone. 



June 22nd — Ten peccaries with five young, (2, 2 and 1). Two curas- 

 sow chicks two weeks old. 



June 23rd — Grey-headed flatbill nestling leaves nest. Phaethornis hum- 

 mingbird in height of courtship and battle. 



June 24th — Large brood of a jungle ichneumon fly, mimicking diptera. 

 Young caica parrots nearly in adult plumage. 



June 25th — French cashew fruit begins to ripen and fall. Silver-beaks 

 seen in trees. 



June 27th — Tree-top flocks reach highest number. Phaethornis nesting- 

 begins. Red-legged digger wasp begins second nesting 

 season. 



June 28th — Rufous-throated ant-catcher hatches young. 



June -29th — Sackawinki monkeys three-quarters grown. Large brood of 

 blue butterflies with black circles. 



June 30th— First big thunder storm of season. 



