CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER II. 



PAGE 



Arrival at Cayenne — Flamingos— Curlews, &c. — Vegetable productions 

 of Cayenne — La Gabrielle — Cock of the Bock — Grand Gobe-mouche 

 — Surinam — The Coryntin — New Amsterdam— Stabroek, now George 

 Town — Produce of Demerara — Slavery — A traveller's necessaries — 

 Walking barefoot — The best costume — Humming-birds— Cotinga — 

 Campanero, or Bell-bird — Toucans, or Toucauets — Beak of the 

 Toucan — Evanesceuce of the colours — The only mode of preserving 

 them 169—184 



CHAPTER III. 



The Houtou — Curious habit of trimming. the tail and feathers — its 

 habits — The Gulanan Jay — The Boclora — Slight attachment of the 

 feathers — TheCuia — Eice-birds — Cassiques, their habit of mockery 

 ■ — Pendulous nests — Gregarious nesting of different species — "Wood- 

 peckers of America and England — Kingfishers — JacaiJars and their 

 fly-catching habits — Troupiales and their songs— Tangaras — Mani- 

 kins — Tiger-birds — Yawaraciri — Ant Thrushes — Parrot of the Sun 

 — Aras, or Macaws — Bitterns — Egret, Herons, etc. — Goatsuckers — 

 Whip-poor- ViU — Superstitions — Tinamous — Powis and Maroudi — 

 Homed Screamer — Trumpeter — King Vulture — Anhinga — Dangers 

 of travel — Quartan ague . . 185 — 207 



THIRD JOURNEY. 



CHAPTER I. 



From the Clyde to Demerara — Yellow fever — A deserted Plantation — 

 Black John — Medicines for tropical cUmates — Bats — The lancet — 

 Severe accident and recovery — A primitive spear — History of the 

 Sloth — An inhabitant of the trees — Structure of the limbs — A domes- 

 ticated Sloth — A life of suspense — Structure of the hair — Mark on 

 the back — Capture of a Sloth— Release and escape — Ants — Ant- 

 bears — The great Ant-bear — Its powers of defence — Attitude when 

 standing — How it catches its prey — Glutinous saliva — The Vampire 

 and its habits — Bleeding gratis — Coushie Ants — Armadillo and its 

 habits— Tortoise— Eggs of Tortoise and Turtle .... g08— 231 



