CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER n. 



Arrival at Cayenne— Flamingos— Curlews, &c.— Vegetable productions 

 of Cayenne — La Gabrielle — Cock of the Eock— Grand Gobe-mouche 

 ^Surinam — The Coryntin — New Amsterdam — Stabroek, now George 

 Town — Produce of Demerara — Slavery — A traveller's necessaries — 

 Walking barefoot — The best costume — Humming-birds — Cotinga — 

 Campanero, cr Bell-bird — Toucans, or Toucanets — Beak of the 

 Toucan — Evanescence of the colours — The only mode of preserving 

 them 169—184 



CHAPTER III. 



The Houtou — Curious habit of trimming the tail and feathers — its 

 habits — The Guianan Jay — The Boclora — Shght attachment of the 

 feathers — TheCuia — Eice-birds — Cassiques, their habit of mockery 

 ■ — Pendulous nests — Gregarious nesting of different species — Wood- 

 peckers of America and England — Kingfishers — Jacamars and their 

 fly-catching habits — Troupiales and their songs — Tangaras — Mani- 

 kins — Tiger-birds — Yawaraciri — Ant Thrushes — Parrot of the Sun 

 — Aras, or Macaws — Bitterns — Egret, Herons, etc. — Goatsuckers — 

 Whip-poor- Will — Superstitions — Tinamous — Powis and Maroudi — 

 Horned Screamer — Trumpeter — King Vulture — Anhinga — Dangers 

 of travel — Quartan ague 185 — 207 



THIRD JOURNEY. 



CHAPTER I. 



From the Clyde to Demerara— Yellow fever— A deserted Plantation- 

 Black John — Medicines for tropical climates — Bats — The lancet — 

 Severe accident and recovery— A primitive spear — History of the 

 Sloth — An inhabitant of the trees — Structm-e of the limbs — A domes- 

 ticated Sloth — A life of suspense— Structure of the ..air — Mark on 

 the back — Capture of a Sloth— Eelease and escape— Ants — Ant- 

 bears — The great Ant-bear— Its powers of defence — Attitude when 

 standing— How it catches its prey— Glutinous saliva— The Vampire 

 and its habits— Bleeding gratis— Coushie Ants— Armadillo and its 

 habits— Tortoise— Eggs of Tortoise and Turtle .... 208—231 



