Blue-cheeked Barbet.' 

 (Cyanops aalatica.) 



XIII.— THE COPPERSMITH. 

 " Only the song of a secret bird." — Swinlmrne. 



Vox et prcBterea nihil, indeed, is Xantholwma hcema- 

 tocephala to most of us ; for though many, vexed by 

 his monotonous music through the blazing weather 

 in which he delights, may have exclaimed with the 

 apostle " Alexander the Coppersmith hath wrought 

 me much evil," few have seen him face to face. Nor 

 can one reasonably be expected to see a pudgy Uttle 

 green bird, not much bigger than a sparrow, with 

 distinct ventriloquial proclivities, and an aspiring 



