148 WANDERINGS IN 



SECOND Before the morning's dawn you hear a noise in 



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the forest, which sounds like " duraquaura" often 



The Par- repeated. This is the partridge, a little smaller, 

 and differing somewhat in colour from the English 

 partridge : it lives entirely in the forest, and 

 probably the young brood very soon leave their 

 parents, as you never flush more than two birds 

 in the same place, and in general only one. 

 TWO species About the same hour, and sometimes even at 



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midnight, you hear two species of Maam, or 

 Tinamou, send forth their long and plaintive 

 whistle from the depth of the forest. The flesh 

 of both is delicious. The largest is plumper, and 

 almost equals in size the black cock of Northum- 

 berland. The quail is said to be here, though 

 rare. 



The Hannaquoi, which some have compared to 



quoi. 



the pheasant, though with little reason, is very 

 common. 

 The Powise Hereare also two species of the Powise,or Hocco, 



or Hocco. . . 



and two of the small wild turkies called Maroudi ; 

 they feed on the ripe fruits of the forest, and 

 are found in all directions in these extensive wilds. 

 You will admire the horned screamer as a stately 

 and majestic bird : he is almost the size of the 

 turkey cock ; on his head is a long slender horn, 

 and each wing is armed with a strong, sharp, 

 triangular spur, an inch long. 

 Flocks of Sometimes you will fall in with flocks of two 



Waracabas * 



or Trum- or three hundred Waracabas, or Trumpeters, 



peters. 



called so from the singular noise they produce. 



