50 BIRDS THAT NO WHITE MAN HAS SEEN. 



the natives. The rocks, mountains, swamps, and 

 the dense wall of forest, shut them up from the 

 rest of the world. Now and then a specimen 

 reaches us of surpassing loveliness, and we gaze 

 with wonder and delight. But the shrunk body 

 and smoke-dried skin is very different from the 

 living, moving creature, radiant with beauty, 

 and flashing light as it were from its wings 1 



