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is snowy white, her under parts a rich brown. Her breast 

 and all her upper plumage and long tail, glitter with golden 

 green. There is light enough it seems, in the forest." 

 The morpho, by the way, is a butterfly, and not a moth. 



GREAT JACAMAfi, 



Jaguab {Leopwrdus onca). — ^Waterton did not see much of 

 the jaguars (which he sometimes calls tigers), and certainly 

 was not afraid of them. Mr. Brown gives the following 

 account of the mode in which the jaguar is successfully 

 hunted : — 



" On returning to the head of the New River for provisions, 

 we were followed for many miles by a Tiger, for on going 

 back we saw its huge tracks in the swampy places on our 

 path. 



"With good hunting-dogs fine Jaguar and Puma hunting 

 might be obtained on the banks of this river, where without 

 doubt they are exceedingly numerous. 



" Many of the Indian hunting-dogs, trained for deer or 

 tapir, will hunt Tigers. When on the track of either of those 

 animals, should they come across the scent of a Tiger, their 



