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white color, with a black tubercle on the upper side of the 

 bill. "Orpheus himself (says Waterton) would drop his 

 lute to listen to him, so sweet, so novel, and romantic is 

 the toll of the pretty, snow-white Campanero." "The 

 Campanero may be heard three miles! (echoes Sidney 

 Smith). This single little bird being more powerful than 

 the belfry of a cathedral ringing for a new dean ! It is 

 impossible to contradict a gentleman who has been in the 

 forests of Cayenne, but we are determined, as soon as a 

 Campanero is brought to England, to make him toll in a 

 public place, and have the distance measured."* But the 

 most remarkable songster of the Amazonian forest is the 

 Realejo, or organ-bird. Its notes are as musical as the 

 flageolet. It is the only songster, says Bates, which makes 

 any impression on the natives. Besides these are the Jac- 

 amars, peculiar to equatorial America, stiipid, but of the 

 most beautiful golden, bronze, and steel colors ; sulky Tro- 

 gons, with glossy green backs and rose - colored breasts ; 

 long-toed Jaganas, half wader, half fowl ; the rich, velvety 

 purple and black RhamjphoGoeliis Jacaj>a, having an im- 

 mense range from Archidona to Para; the gallinaceous 

 yet arboreal Ciganas ; scarlet ibises, smaller, but more 

 beautiful than their sacred cousins of the Nile; stilted 

 flamingoes, whose awkwardness is atoned for by their bril- 

 liant red plumage ; glossy black Mutums, or curassow tur- 

 keys ; ghostly storks, white egrets, ash-colored herons, black 

 ducks, barbets, kingfishers, sandpipers, gulls, plovers, wood- 

 peckers, oreoles; tanagers, essentially a South American 

 family, and, excepting thi'ee or four species, foimd only 

 east of the Andes ; wagtails, finches, thi'ushes, doves, and 

 hummers. The last, " by western Indians living sunbea7ns 

 named," are few, and not to be compared with the swarms 

 in the Andean valleys. The birds of the Amazon have no 



* Eeview of Waterton's Wanderings in South America. 



