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and the other collections ,also increased considerably, owing 

 principally to the help of the experienced Tembe Indians, o£ 

 whom we had half-a-dozen in our company. Crotophaga 

 major, Falco rufigu/aris, Ceryle (of several species), Cassicus 

 persicus, Cotile riparia, Tachycineta albiventris, Atticora 

 fasciata, M onus a nigra and M. morpheus, Columba plumbea, 

 Ara severa and other small species of Ara, Anodorhynchus 

 hyacinthinus, Pionias violaceus, Odontophorus guianensis , 

 Crypturus strigulosus, and Rhamphastus erythrorhynchus 

 were among our spoils. 



The Tembe Indians, especially attentive to the larger birds 

 for the kitchen, brought in from their hunting examples of 

 Crypturus strigulosus, Psophia obscura, and a large Wood- 

 pecker, but in too bad a state to be of use for our collections. 



I myself visited the surrounding forest, and became really 

 impressed by its varied and extensive bird-life. It was 

 impossible to determine in many cases all the bird-forms 

 which emitted strange sounds high above our heads in the 

 summits of the gigantic forest-trees, hammered on the 

 branches and on the trunks, and climbed in the foliage of 

 the lower vegetation. True Woodpeckers (Picidre), as well 

 as the pseudo- Woodpeckers of the family Dendrocolaptida;, 

 were represented in dazzling multiplicity, and every orni- 

 thologist acquainted with the neotropical avifauna will easily 

 understand the extraordinary difficulty which I feel in 

 giving an absolutely exact description of all that may be 

 seen and heard in an Amazonian forest. There is one 

 means only of obtaining full certitude — the " ultima ratio " 

 of bringing specimens down with powder and shot. 



On the evening of the 30th of June we returned to Poco 

 Real, a recently commenced plantation of the Tembe Indians 

 about an hour distant down the river. In the morning of 

 the next day we sent the steam-launch ' Ondina' back to Para 

 with part of the collections and some living animals. We 

 were thus left entirely to ourselves, aud lived from the 30;h of 

 June to the 5th of July along with the Tembes, of whom 

 about a dozen families were assembled there, occupied with 

 their "royas" (plantations) of mandioca and other food. 



