BELL BIRD. Arapunga alba. 



any of the winged inhabitants of the forest, not even the clearly pronounced ' Whip-poor- 

 Will ! ' from the goatsucker, causes such astonishment as the toll of the Campanero. 



With many of the feathered race, he pays the common tribute of a morning and 

 evening song ; and even when the meridian sun has shut in silence the mouths of almost 

 the whole of animated nature, the Campanero still cheers the forest. You hear his toll, 

 and then a pause for a minute, then another toll, and then a pause again, and then a toll, 

 and again a pause. Then he is silent for six or eight minutes, and then another toll, and 

 so on. Actseon would stop in mid chase, Maria would defer her evening song, and 

 Orpheus himself would drop his lute to listen to him, so sweet, so novel and romantic, is 

 the toll of the pretty snow-white Campanero." 



The " horn " of the Bell Bird is only erect while the creature is excited and during 

 the resonant cry, and when the bird is at rest it hangs loosely on the side of the face. It 

 is supposed that the Bell Bird builds in Guiana, but its nest and locality of breeding are 

 at present unknown. 



To the Chatterers succeed the Campephaginse, or Caterpillar-eaters, which are nearly 

 all found in the various countries of the Old World. As their name imports, they live 

 chiefly upon caterpillars and other insects, preferring those that are still in the larval state, 



