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INDEX 



92, 96, 97; owl, 96, 157, 168; Puan, 

 98, 101; sickle-billed humming, 104, 

 105; egrets, 107; toucan, grotesque 

 attitudes of, 108, 160; finfoots, 108; 

 herons, 108; troupials, 117; oppor- 

 tunity for study of, 120; parakeets, 

 120; screamers, 121; curassows, 122, 

 297; snake, 126; cormorants, 126; 

 spurred lapwing, 126; contrasts in 

 habits between closely allied species 

 of, 126; manakin, 133; 145; whip- 

 poorwill, 164; honey-creeper, 164; 

 nunlets, 164; waxbill, 165; trogons, 

 174; false bell-bird, 174; woodpecker 

 197; some new, 212; breeding season 

 of, 212; macaws, 213; old and new 

 kinds of, 213; valuable addition to 

 collection of, 215; unfamiliar, 228, 

 229; sariema, 230, 231; cotinga, 247; 

 sixty new, 259, 260; four new species 

 of, 271; ant-thrush, 287; 290, 313; 

 jacare-tinga, 315; trumpeter, 322; 

 few water, 327; hoatzin, archaic 

 type of, 334. 

 Boats, house, 99; their use as stores, 



99- 



Bonofacio, Jose, station of, 130, 237, 

 239; provisions left at, 241. 



Books, 157, 223, 241, 261; of travel, 

 Appendix A, 345, 346. 



Booth Line, 334, 335. 



Borah, Jake, 115. 



Brazil, invitation of Government of, 

 2; arrival at boundary of, 48, 49; 

 intellectual and spiritual liberty of, 

 50; healthiness of inland region of, 

 100; invaluable reports of explora- 

 tions published by Government of, 

 130; educational needs of, 152; sil- 

 ver-mounted saddle and bridle pre- 

 sented to Colonel Roosevelt by 

 Government of, 165; suggestion to 

 combine the two expeditions made 

 by Government of, 182; first ex- 

 plorers of, 183; houses of laborers in, 

 190; healthy region for settlement 

 offered by high interior of western, 

 21 1 ; courtesy of peasants of, 316; 

 "last frontier" still exists in, 324; 



development of, 324, 325; Govern- 

 ment of, orders Duvida River to be 

 named Rio Roosevelt, 332; achieve- 

 ments of Government of, 338, 339; 

 Colonel Rondon's report of Savage 

 Landor to Government of, Appen- 

 dix A, note, 347, 348. 



Brazil, Doctor Vital, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 

 21, 22, 23, 24, 41, 283. 



Brazil Land and Cattle Company, 

 headquarters of, 121, 122. 



Bridge, an Indian, 248, 249. 



Bronx Zoo, 336. 



Bryce, James, 172; Appendix A, 344. 



Buenos Aires, 9, 31. 



Bullets, umbrella-pointed, 137. 



Bullock-train, 215. 



Butterflies, 164, 230. 



Burity River, camp at, 205, 206, 207. 



Burton, 344. 



Caboclos, 187, 237. 

 Caetano, Lieutenant, 183. 

 Caete flags, 104. 



Cajazeira, Doctor, 166, 183, 203, 275, 

 283, 304, 305, 312, 319; good-by to, 



335- 



Camaradas, 103, 104; skilful riding of, 

 104; 113, 114, 134; wilderness work 

 disliked by, 155; 244, 261, 275; dis- 

 couragement of, 299; tragedy among 

 the, 302, 308; fever among, 309; 

 share food with, 314; lose strength, 

 319; ill from overeating, 325; part- 

 ing gift to, 335. 



Camp chairs and table, Appendix B, 



353- 



Campos Novos, 227, 228. 



Canama River, 255, 289, 329. 



Canja, 165, 229. 



Canoes, 134; Canadian, 165, 241, 243, 

 244; portaging the, 253, 255, 260, 

 261; loss of two, 262; building new, 

 265, 266; 267; lose another, 273; 275; 

 build two more, 280; 293, 295; rocks 

 break, 298; 299, 302, 313, 314, 321; 

 obtain boat to replace, 328; two 

 months in, 330; last trip in, 332; 

 Appendix B, 353, 354, 355, 356. 



