SCREAMERS. 



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This singular bird is an inhabitant of the inun- 

 dated grounds of South America, where the im- 

 mense rivers overflowing their banks, cover large 



HORNED SCREAMER. 



tracts of flat country with sluggish water, which 

 soon becomes choked up with multitudinous forms 

 of rank aquatic vegetation. In the vast swamps 

 and morasses thus formed, which teem with the 



