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of us, and now and then great solid banks of flowers hung like 

 huge tapestries upon the foliage walls. One white flower with 

 a plume-like tuft of long slender stamens, filled whole bends 

 of the river with its sweet perfume and formed aerial banks 

 of bloom fifty feet square. We saw here for the first time 

 the Green River Ibises 2Q looking dull black in the sunlight. 

 They were of the same size as Scarlet Ibises but with a 

 shorter tail, and flapped more slowly in flight. 



F:<; 106. SAI.T-WATKR FI.YINV, FISH. 



Just before dusk we readied the house of the government 

 agent of this district, Mr. Xirholsnn, and were made welcome 

 at his little home in the heart of tin- wilderness. The house 

 is on a steep bluff of red clay, changing to yellow near the 

 water and commanding a line view up and down the river. 

 Below, the river is smooth and shining, while a quarter of 

 a mile above the house a mass of tumbling while water blocks 

 further progress and marks the second portage. 



In the yard near the house one passes through a cluster of 

 young fruit trees and here two small colonies of Yellow 

 backed Cassiques i:>1 had located, clustering their pendent 

 nests almost within arm's reach about two big nests of sting- 



