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occasionajlj^ catching insects for itself. Its favorite perch was a branch of 

 flowering Clavillina, to which one end of the ridge-pole rope of our tent 

 was attached. Here, day after day, it unconsciously posed before the 

 camera, leaving nothing for regret except that its exquisite coloring, which 

 showed so beautifully on the ground glass, must be lost in the negative. It 



MEXICAN MOTMOT 



left this perch only when hungry or when the great heat of midday drove it 

 to the shade of the tent or a neighboring tree. 



I will quote some notes which I made in my journal. The bill of this 

 Motmot is large and deeply serrated or toothed on each edge, and when 

 angry, after being teased with a piece of meat, the bird darts at and takes 

 firm hold of one's finger and suffers itself to be carried, dangling, several 

 yards before flying of?. The crown of the head and the neck are bright 

 cinnamon, shading into a beautiful grass-green on the back and wings. 



