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INDEX. 



Port of Spain, 3, 4. 

 Street life of, 119. 

 Protective resemblances, 41, 42, 43, 



44. 



Pseudauchenipterus nodosus, 13. 

 Psidium fluviatile, 263. 

 Pterochroya ocellata, 213. 

 Puff-fishes, 14, 15. 

 Puma, South America, 60, 61. 

 Purple heart trees, 163. 

 Pyrophorus sp., 54, 55. 



Q- 

 Quadrille-bird, 188, 309, 310, 321, 



33- 

 Quail, Guiana, 340, 341. 



R. 



Racheolopha nivetacta, 211. 



Rail, Cayenne Wood, 378. 



Robins, White-breasted, 116. 



White-throated, 322, J2j, 324, 

 340. 



Rhyncophorus palmatum. See Wee- 

 vil. 



Rodway, James, 123, 132. 



S. 



Salapenta, 146. 

 Saman Trees, 132, 142. 

 Sandpipers, 8. 



Solitary, 263. 



Spotted, 58, 156. 

 Sapadillo, 121, 127. 

 Scarlet Ibis, 7, 8, 81, 153, 154, 155. 

 Scorpion, jp, 46. 



Battle with Caterpillar, 291, 292. 



Whip, 189, 190. 

 Screamer, Horned, 381. 

 Sea-cows. See Manatee. 

 Seedeaters, 60, 142. 



Blue-backed, 171. 

 Semiotus ligneus, 192. 

 Serenades, by negroes from Pitch 



Lake, 100, 101. 

 Serrasalmo scapular is, 160. 

 Shell Flower, 218. 

 Shypook. See Heron, Guiana Green. 



Silk Cotton Trees, 163. 



Sigh heard in the Mangrove forest 



and explanation of, 26. 

 Simitu, 272, 273. 

 Skimmers, 8, 135, 148. 

 Sloop, Anchored in Guanoco River, 



72. 



At La Ceiba, 18. 

 Description of, 3, 71. 

 Description of crew of, 77. 

 Entering Mangroves, 5. 

 First night on board, 72-75. 

 Loss of, 1 08. 

 Saying good-by to, 93. 

 Sloths, 37, 61, 170, 246. 



Three-toed, 279, 280, 281. 

 Snake-birds, 30, 137, 251, 252, 354. 

 Sphingurus prehensilis, 36, 37. 

 Spider lilies. See Lilies. 

 Spider, Pedipalp. See Scorpion. 

 Sproston, 248. 



Squirrels, Orange and gray, 24. 

 Stagmomantis hoorie. See Mantis. 

 Stomolophus meleagris, 4. 

 Stork, Maguari, 155, 156. 

 Sugarcane, experimented on in 



Botanical Gardens, 131. 

 Sun-bittern, 25, 60, 86. 

 Suddie, 243. 

 Swallows, Banded, 162, 175, 176, 



200, 265, 379. 

 Barn, 247, 379. 

 Emerald and white, 24. 

 Red-breasted, 379. 

 Tree, 379. 



Variegated, 247, 265, 378, 379, 

 _ 381- 

 Swift, Feather-toed, 144. 



Nest of, 143, 176. 

 Gray-rumped, 289, 292. 

 Palm, 56. 



T. 



Tacuba, 269, 279. 

 Taliput palm, 125, 128. 

 Tamandua tetradactyla. See Ant- 

 eater, Lesser. 



Tanager, Black-faced, 131. 

 Blue, 127, 139, 142, 171. 



