THE IBIS 



SEVENTH SERIES. 



No. X. APRIL 1897. 



XIII. — Ornithological Results of a Nuturalisfs Visit to the 

 Coast-region of South Guyana. By Dr. Emil A. Goeldi, 

 CM. Z.S.J Director of the Museum in Para. 



Leaving Para during the night of the 7th of October, 1895, 

 we began, on board the small steamer ^Adjudante/ of the 

 Amazon Steam Navigation Company, our journey to 

 Guyana, favoured by very fine weather. The outside-route 

 along Marajo and the Atlantic coast being at the same time 

 disagreeable and dangerous, we sailed on the inside-way 

 around this large island, passing through the celebrated 

 " Channels of Breves," with their charming vegetation, which 

 struck my countryman Louis Agassiz in 1865 with such 

 admiration. During the following days nothing was observed, 

 from the ornithological standpoint, that deserves especial 

 attention, except, perhaps, some fine specimens of Urubi- 

 tinga schistacea, circling above the shore-forests of the 

 delightful "^furos" (channels), and a small flight of A^awc/erw* 

 furcatus playing in the air near the island-group called Sao 

 Salvador. One can hardly be tired of observing the elegant 

 evolutions of this really masterly flier. 



Early on the morning of the 11th we arrived in sight of 

 the coast of Guyana, near the mouth of the river Counany. 

 Approaching the shore we saw before us an interminable 



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