322 TIMEHRI. 
fastenings succeeded in again escaping on two occasions, 
until at last we had to tie him. Even then he found 
a way of liberating himself the following night and in 
the morning had disappeared leaving no trace. 
My hunters proved that game, especially birds, was 
to be had in plenty in the Roraima forests. They 
returned in the evening with three powis, eight marudis, 
four duraquaras and two acouris, which they had shot in 
the neighbouring bush ina very little time. Besides these 
they also brought a few Pipra co-:nuta which they had 
killed with the blow-pipe. This elegant bird, which is 
called Kerepika by the Arekunas, I only met with at 
Roraima; the male is black, but the female greyish 
green, with the whole head, the neck and lower part of the 
thigh scarlet, as are also the feathers of the back part of 
the head, which are lengthened into two tufts that can be 
ere€ted or depressed at pleasure. Another bird common 
in the forest of Roraima is the dara, (Chasmarhynchus 
variegatus), the throat of which in the male is naked and 
hung with vermicular fleshy appendages; except at 
Roraima it is met with nowhere else in Guiana. 
The Arekunas of the settlement, [birima-yeng, three 
hours distant, brought me every day large strings of 
birds hung on bush-ropes, mostly Tanagra, Pipra, 
Euphone, Calliste and several others, so that my Indian 
taxidermists had to work the whole day and I soon 
obtained a respeétable colleétion. My mode of living 
in the hut at the foot of Roraima remained, with little 
exception, the same every day. At the same time 
however I discovered daily something new and interest- 
ing which was peculiar to the region. As morning 
dawned | rose from my hammock, and after taking 
