320 EXCURSIONS IN NEIGHBOURHOOD OF EGA. Cnap, Xl, 
however, made them out, and a fine male was shot from the flock ; the 
rest flying away and alighting at no great distance ; the species was the 
one of which the male has a round red ball on its beak (Crax globicera). 
The pursuit of the others led us a great distance, straight towards the 
interior of the island, in which direction we marched for three hours, 
having the lake always on our right. 
Arriving at length at the head of the lake, Bento struck off to the left 
across the restinga, and we then soon came upon a treeless space choked 
up with tall grass, which appeared to be the dried-up bed of another 
lake. Our leader was obliged to climb a tree to ascertain our position, 

Umbrella Bird. 
and found that the clear space was part of the creek, whose mouth we 
had crossed lower down. The banks were clothed with low trees, 
nearly all of one species, a kind of araca (Psidium), and the ground was 
carpeted with a slender delicate grass, now in flower. A great number 
of crimson and vermilion coloured butterflies (Catagramma Peristera, 
male and female) were settled on the smooth white trunks of these trees. 
I had also here the great pleasure of seeing for the first time the rare 
and curious Umbrella Bird (Cephalopterus ornatus), a species which 
resembles in size, colour, and appearance our common crow, but is 
decorated with a crest of long curved hairy feathers having long bare 
quills, which, when raised, spread themselves out in the form of a 
fringed sun-shade over the head. A strange ornament, like a pelerine, 
