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where there are pools of water, would appear his favourite 

 resort. Perched on a twig above one of these pools, the 

 king-tody awaits his prey. He raises or depresses his 

 brilliant crest according as he wishes it to be seen or 

 is desirous of concealing himself ; the rest of his body, 

 although beautifully marked, being of a dusky hue, is 

 difficult to distinguish in the gloom of his retreat. 



At times, numbers of birds of different species will be 

 seen together going from tree to tree, probably in pursuit 

 of insects. On occasions like these it is possible to obtain 

 in a short time more different kinds than are met with in 

 a whole day's tramp. By sitting patiently on a log in 

 the low scrub clothing the banks of the water-courses in 

 the forest, one may obtain many a rare specimen. It was 

 in such a spot that I saw for the first time, but failed to 

 secure, a bird of a new genus,' which Dr. Hartert has 

 named after me. This occurred in November 1897. I 

 had been seated for some little time in a patch of brush- 

 wood such as I have described, when there appeared on a 

 twig so close to me that I dared not move or fire, the bird 

 of which my boy Pedro succeeded in obtaining a speci- 

 men in February 1901, and which forms the type of the 

 genus. Only he who has been a collector himself will 

 understand how I felt when this strange bird, after look- 

 ing at me in amazement for a few seconds, disappeared in 

 the shelter of the scrub. I waited, it must have been for 

 hours, on the chance of his returning, and for days I visited 

 the spot, but without success. Singularly enough the 

 specimen obtained three years after was killed in the very 

 same patch of scrub by Pedro, to whom I had related the 



' Taeniotriccus Andrei, No. 132 of Novitates Zoologicce, vol. ix., April 

 1902. 



