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INDEX 



eclipse, in Barbados, 61 



egrets, 88 

 elater, 277 

 Essequibo, 144, 148 



falcons, laughing, 88 



fireflies, cluster, 210 



fish, angel, 50, 56; four-eyed, 

 128; frog, 18; photograph- 

 ing of flying, 23; pipe, 18 



flower, passion, 182 



flycatchers, 249 ; fork-tailed, 

 122, 159; golden-crowned 

 crested, 150; streaked, 196 



frangipani, 85 



frog, 211, 212, 240, 273; call, 

 240 



gannets, 40 

 grass, bamboo, 183 

 grasshopper, 128, 212 

 grass-quits, 157 

 grass, razor, 179, 184 

 guide, for cutting trail, 187, 

 188 



hanaquas, 119 



hawks, 99 



heliconias, 202; color, 204; 

 Reds, 205; sleeping glade, 

 205, 206; sleeping position, 

 205; Yellows, 205 



herons, Guiana green, 127; tri- 

 colored, 88 



hoatzins, 118, 119; call, 130; 

 food of young, 126; home 

 life, 123-139; nest, 126, 129; 

 nestlings, 131; odor, 129; 

 photographing young, 102, 

 103 



honey creepers, 47, 252; tur- 

 quoise, 201 



hummingbirds, 38, 113, 197, 

 198, 199, 200 



ibis, scarlet, 122 



jackal, crab, 282 

 jaguar, 186 



jungle, animals obtained from, 

 282; trail through, 89 j yard 

 of, 255 



Kaburi trail, 148 

 Kalacoon, 142, 143 

 kingbirds, 47 

 kinkajous, 263, 281 

 kiskadees, 86, 104, 127, 157 

 kunama, 273; habits, 274 



laboratory, wilderness, 141-153 



lianas, 246 



library. New Amsterdam, 105, 



110 

 lichens, 196 

 lizards, in Barbados, 60; 



method of capture, 41-43; 



surrender of, 203; trail, 202 

 lucannani, 157 



maam, 189 



Mafolie, 38 



Mahaica, 99 



manakins, 249, 252; opal- 

 crowned, 252 



Martinique, 27-32, 49-54; mar- 

 ket, 49-51 



martins, 69, 79, 158 



Mazaruni, 144, 148 



millipede, 38, 214 



mimicry, 257 



mites, 259 



Monkey Hill, 47 



monkeys, 48; howling, 155- 

 156 



Mont Pelee, 27-32 



moths, 256 



mouse, 211 



muckamucka, 125 



New Amsterdam, 110, 124 

 nighthawk, call, 267; gather- 

 ing, 267 

 noctiluca, 65 

 nuts, 75 



opossum, 73, 74 

 orioles, black-throated, 88 j 

 yellow, nest of, 100 



