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Another species of cassia ue, as large as a crow, > 



JOURNEY. 



is very common in the plantations. In the morn- 



ing, he generally repairs to a large tree, and there, Another 



... species of 



with his tail spread over his back, and shaking his the Cas- 



i i T sique. 



lowered wings, he produces notes, which though 

 they cannot be said to amount to a song, still have 

 something very sweet and pleasing in them. He 

 makes his nest in the same form as the other 

 cassiques. It is above four feet long ; and when 

 you pass under the tree, which often contains 

 fifty or sixty of them, you cannot help stopping to 

 admire them as they wave to and fro, the sport of 

 every storm and breeze. The rump is chestnut ; 

 ten feathers of the tail are a fine yellow, the 

 remaining two, which are the middle ones, are 

 black, and an inch shorter than the others. His 

 bill is sulphur colour ; all the rest of the body 

 black, with here and there shades of brown. He 

 has five or six long narrow black feathers on the 

 back of his head, which he erects at pleasure. 



There is one more species of cassique in Deme- 

 rara, which always prefers the forests to the 

 cultivated parts. His economy is the same as that 

 of the other cassiques. He is rather smaller than 

 the last described bird. His body is greenish, 

 and his tail and rump paler than those of the 

 former. Half of his beak is red. 



You would not be long in the forests of Deme- wood- 



11 IT- peckers. 



rara, without noticing the woodpeckers. You 

 meet with them feeding at all hours of the day. 



