122 TROPICAL WILD LIFE IN BRITISH GUIANA 

 BIRDS PROTECTED FROM APRIL I TO SEPTEMBER I: 



Bitterns Quail and Partridges 



Chachalacas Snipe 



Curassows Spoonbills 



Curlews Spur-winged Jacanas 



Guans Storks 



Jabirus Thick-kneed Plover 



Limpkins or Caraows Tinamou 



Parrots and Macaws Trumpeters or Warracabras 



Plovers 



BIRDS PROTECTED FROM APRIL I TO JULY I: 



Ducks (except in rice fields) 

 Doves (other than Ground Doves) 

 Pigeons 



BIRDS PROTECTED FROM JANUARY I TO SEPTEMBER 1 1 



Ibises 



There is a curious psychological agreement among a 

 number of important South American birds, so pronounced 

 and uniform that it is difficult not to consider it as being a 

 link between them, although structurally they are quite dis- 

 similar. This is an acceptance of captivity, or rather a vol- 

 untary association with man, which is astounding. If one 

 finds a curassow or trumpeter chick, kills its parents or 

 frightens them away and then carries it part-way toward 

 camp, it will willingly follow the rest of the way. From 

 that time on, it becomes a familiar of the household or barn- 

 yard. This I have seen in the case of Indians, and I have, 

 myself, achieved it with curassow chicks. At Kalacoon we 

 had a number of curassows, guans and trumpeters and all 

 exhibited this total lack of fear. In the heart of the jungle 

 one will come across a temporary Indian benab with a flock 

 of some or all of these birds running and flying about, never 

 offering to go back to the jungle. 



