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extreme branches, rattles with his large hollow 

 bill, and in loud plaintive notes calls for rain. The 

 busy orioles* creep out of their long, pendent, 

 bag-shaped nests, to visit the orange trees, and 

 their sentinels, announce with a loud screaming 

 cry, the approach of man. The flycatchers t sit- 

 ting aloof, watching for insects, dart from the trees 

 and shrubs, and^with rapid flight catch the hovering 

 Menelaus or the shining flies as they buzz by. 

 Meantime, the amorous thrush t, concealed in the 

 thicket, pours forth her joy in a strain of beautiful 

 melody; the chattering manakins §, calling from 

 the close bushes, sometimes here, sometimes there, 

 in the full tones of the nightingale, amuse them- 

 selves in misleading the hunters ; and the wood- 

 pecker || makes the distant forests resound while 

 he picks the bark from the trees. Above all these 

 strange voices, the metallic tones of the uraponga^ 

 sound from the tops of the highest trees, resembling 

 the strokes of the hammer on the anvil, which 



* Oriolus minor, niger> hoemorrhous, albirostris Az. 



f Cuculus cayennensis ; Galbula viridis ; Trogon Curucui, 

 viridis ; Bucco cayennensis, leucops, tenebrosus lllig. r Capito 

 melanotis T. ; Muscicapa sulpburata, cayennensis, audax, vir- 

 gata ; Pitangua. 



:j: Turdus Orpheus, brasiliensis. 



§ Pipra leucocilla, erythrocephala, strigilata Neuw., Manacus, 

 pareola. 



II Picus flavicans, lineatus, robustus, Langsdorffi oob. ; Yunx 

 minutissima ; Dendrocolaptes scandens, Picu«, turdinua, 

 guttatus. 



]. Procnias ventralis et nudicollis lllig. 



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