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THICK-BILLED PARROT 



lowed us everywhere as we made our way over the 

 sHppery ground. The fatigue of walking among these 

 pines was very great. The ground was carpeted with 

 the smooth, slippery needles, and everything, the trunks 

 of the trees, the needles, and soon our clothes and 

 camera were thickly coated with the white ashes falling 

 from the active volcano, whose dense outpourings of 

 white smoke were visible above the trees ahead. 



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