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SANTAEEM. 



Chap. I. 



hottest part of the day, when my people lay asleep, 

 and watch the movements of animals. Sometimes a 

 troop of Anus (Crotophaga), a glossy black-plumaged 

 bird, which lives in small societies in grassy places, 

 would come in from the campos, one by one, calling to 

 each other as they moved from tree to tree. Or a 

 Toucan (Rhamphastos ariel) silently hopped or ran 

 along and up the branches, peeping into chinks and 

 crevices. Notes of solitary birds resounded from a 



The Jacuaru (Teius teguexim). 



distance through the wilderness. Occasionally a sulky 

 Trogon would be seen, with its brilliant green back and 

 rose-coloured breast, perched for an hour without moving 

 on a low branch. A number of large, fat lizards two 

 feet long, of a kind called by the natives Jacuaru (Teius 

 teguexim) were always observed in the still hours of mid- 

 day scampering with great clatter over the dead leaves, 

 apparently in chase of each other. The fat of this 

 bulky lizard is much prized by the natives, who apply 





