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head, and generally high out of range. In the forest around, 

 the puppy-like yelping of the toucans, and the loud 

 drumming of the wood-peckers, rang out at all hours of 

 the day — at times so loud indeed were the peckings of the 

 red-necked woodpecker (CampephiUis rubricollis) that 

 it was difficult to imagine their connexion. The swallow- 

 winged barbet CCheltdoptera), whose constant perches 

 are the tips of the high dead branches by the waterside, 

 the red -bill (MonasaJ, the lovely yellow and red-breasted 

 species of trogons, and the equally lovely jacamars, with 

 species of tree-creepers, cuckoos, bush shrikes and tyrant 

 shrikes, hang-nests, tanagers, king-fishers and humming- 

 birds — at rare intervals, the brilliant Karabimiti or King 

 humming-bird (Topaza pella) — were by no means un- 

 common in the branches overhanging the water. 



On all sides, the greenheart-birds (Lathria cinerea) 

 incessantly rang out their piercing "pi-pi-yo." High over- 

 head, hidden away in the branches, the bultatas shrieked: 

 and the bare-headed chatterers or quow-birds (Gymnoce- 

 phalus calvus) bellowed, with a sound as though 

 from a herd of oxen grazing in the forest. The notes 

 of this last bird are astonishingly loud, but when 

 heard from a distance, through the forest, they are 

 remarkably like the more musical sounding of the campa- 

 nero (Chasmorhynchus niveus) , and might often be 

 mistaken for it. 



The reptiles met with have already been referred to ; 

 and the inse6ls, in all respe6ts, were identical with those 

 species found lower down. 



For several miles above Booboo, the current of the 

 river is extremely strong, and the banks become 

 elevated and rocky as the Wahmara mountain range is 



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