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TiMEHRI. 



60 feet high, a perfe6l pyramid in shape and one dense 

 mass of golden flowers from top to bottom. In the back- 

 ground were some palms (Attalea sp.) whose gracefully 

 arching fronds, illuminated by the setting sun, completed 

 a pi6lure we shall always remember. The tree was of 

 the Bignonia family but to what genus it belonged I am 

 unable to say. 



A mora just bursting into leaf, and some of the Pachiras, 

 whose young leaves hang in lambent tresses from the 

 extremities of the branches, like bunches of fly-paper are 

 as unique and pretty studies in foliage as one can desire. 



In comparison to the other rivers, the Potaro is very poor 

 in game ; except the labba (Ccelogenys paca) and the ubi- 

 quitous acourie, which seem to be particularly common, 

 one seldom meets with or sees traces of any other wild 

 animal. 



A remarkable fa6l conne6led with the distribution of 

 the acourie and its near relative the adourie (Dasy- 

 pro6ia acuchy) is that while the former is found on both 

 banks of the Essequibo River, the latter is only to be 

 obtained on the right bank. 



The large maam, Tinamus subcristatus^ which is so 

 commonly found in other parts of the Colony, is rather 

 scarce in Potaro. and only on rare occasions does its 

 mournful cry come wafted on the evening breeze. Trujn- 

 peL birds or " warracabbas" (Psophia crepitans) are 

 often met with, and one day I came across a very large 

 flock while rambling in the bush, but not having a gun 

 with me they went by unmolested. There is a second 

 distin6l species, or a well-marked variety, of this bird 

 occurring in the Potaro. Unfortunately the one I saw 

 had been shot by an Indian, who brought it to me partly 



