198 Travels and Adventures 



little Rodriguezia secunda grows here in abundance, 

 festooning the trees with wreaths of its pretty rose- 



THE CRESTED CURASSOW \CRAX ALECTOR), 



coloured flowers, mixed with Comparettia Macro- 

 plectron and a small variety of Tnchopilia. The 

 vegetation changes, as we ascend the mountain-side, 

 from the thick growth of the vegetable-ivory palm 



