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was obliged to return the next day. But this very inter- 

 esting locality furnished us on the same evening with several 

 birds new to us. Very numerous up here were two Pigeons 

 — the magnificent Col^mba speciosa, perhaps the brightest 

 of the South-American species, and Columha rufina. 

 Descending the river next morning I was much pleased with 

 a flight of Deroptyus accipitrinus, the Collar- Parrot, called 

 '' Anaca/^ one of the most aberrant of the New-World psit- 

 tacine forms, reminding one of an Australian Cockatoo. 

 Everything is aberrant in this bird, even its cry, which is a 

 loud kia-kia-kia-gui-giii-gui, and diff'erent from that of any 

 other neotropical Parrot, il believe it is the first time that this 

 species has been noted in the South-Guyana coast-region. At 

 another cascade (a really remarkable place for Podostomacese, 

 especially for the splendid Mou7'era fluviatilis) we collected 

 examples of Eurypyga helias and Aramus scolopaceus. 



Leaving our northern headquarters in Counany on the 

 24th October, the steamer ' Adjudante ' brought us to Amapa, 

 after a somewhat troublesome course along the coast. In 

 Amapa we spent another fortnight. My remembrances of 

 this unhappy and pestilential marsh-region are exceedingly 

 disagreeable. Bad fevers struck down my companions one 

 by one ; out of six I had the luck to be the only one who 

 escaped untouched. Though most of them recovered them- 

 selves slowly towards the end of our residence, I was seriously 

 hindered in the execution of our programme, and my zoo- 

 logical researches suffered also. I regret it the more, as the 

 region is interesting from the ornithological standpoint, and 

 may be called very rich as regards the water-birds. 



The village of Amapa (as will be seen by the map, p. 151) 

 is distant from the coast between 70 and 80 kilometres, and is 

 situated on the right bank of the " Igarape do Campo," an 

 affluent of the ''Amapa pequeno." The actual village, 

 erected, as we discovered, on an old Indian burial-place, 

 suffered very much from the recent armed invasion of some 

 French soldiers and the subsequent massacre on the 15th 

 May, 1895. On the front of it is a river, certainly 30 m. 

 wide, but almost impracticable, even for canoes, during 



