of an Expedition up the Capim River. 487 



We noticed that early in the morning and in the evening, 

 for about an hour, groups of some twenty or thirty 

 small Swallows exercised their mosquito-hunting faculties 

 above the " roea," and disappeared afterwards. They were 

 the two often-mentioned River-Swallows and Stelgidopteryx. 



On July 3rd we obtained Anodorhynchus kyacinthinus 

 (one living example of which we brought to Para), Urubi- 

 tinga sp. inc., Pipile cujvbi, and Rhamphastus erythro- 

 rhynchus. This day and the next I was principally employed 

 in collecting ants and spiders, in taking photographs, and 

 in preparing linguistic notes on the Tembe language. 



One of the birds that occupied much of my attention was 

 Neomorphus genffroyi, a large forest Cuckoo, not very 

 rare on the higher Capim. The Tupi name for it is 

 " Tajacu-uira/' that is, the bird of the "tajacii-hog" 

 (Dicotyles tajacu) ; the Tembe Indians, however, call it 

 "Aka-netika" — that is, "(the bird which) nods with the 

 head." Generally several individuals are met with together 

 in the deep forest, and all the information that I obtained 

 from the Indians about its life and customs agrees with mv 

 own. It has the habits and manners of a Formicarian bird, 

 following the Eciton ant-armies and mingling in the flocks of 

 Phlogopsis, Rhopoterpe, Formicarius, Pyriglena, Myrmeciza, 

 and other ant-birds. It is therefore often met with on the 

 ground. 



At Poco Real I also had an opportunity of taking the first 

 steps towards clearing up a confusion about certain species of 

 Amazonian Cracidse, a matter to which I will return later. 



During the night of the 4th of July our Tembe Indians 

 organized a dancing festival, called by them " he-ira," on a 

 clear space in the centre of the plantation near the river- 

 bank. They danced, sang to the rhythm of their "maraca" 

 (rattle), smoked their gigantic cigars (about 2 feet long), 

 and drank with much " entrain " till the morning of the 

 next day. 



But the same morning at 4 o'clock we embarked in three 

 canoes on our return voyage. We were accompanied by a 

 young Indian, who had been lent to me by his mother for 



