CONTENTS 



TACK 



Dkdication VII 



Introduction hy COloxki. Tiikodoiu: I^oosevelt IX 



Preface , XIII 



PART I— Pv William Beebe. 



I — Establishment of the Tkotical Research Station 'IH 



II — Historical Haktica 3 1 



III — The Naturalists of Bartica District 38 



IV — The General Field ok \Vork 43 



V — The Open Clearing and Secondgrowth 51 



VI — The Jungle and Its Life G9 



VII — The Bird Life of Bartica District 91 



VIII — ^LiST OF THE Birds of Bartica District 127 



IX^ — Akawai Indian and Colonial Names of Birds and 



Mammals of Bartica 138 



X — Methods of Research 147 



XI — Further Notes on the Life History of Hoatzins 155 



XII — The Homes of Toucans 183 



XIII — Ornithological Discoveries 211 



XIV — Young Grey-backed Trumpeters 247 



XV— The Ways of Tinamou 258 



XVI — Wild I-ife near Kalacoon 271 



XVII — The Alligators of Guiana 283 



PART II — By G. Inness Hartley. 



XVI II — Notes on the Development of the Jacana 293 



XIX — Notes on the Development of the Smooth-billed 



Ani 307 



XX — Notes on a Few Embryos 321 



XXI — ^Nesting Habits of the Grey-breasted Martin 328 



XXII Preliminary Notes on the Development of the 



Wing 342 



XXIII — Notes on the Perai Fish 359 



