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so intensely modified as in tlie male ; while the male of the 

 common kind has only two of those feathers in each wing, 

 which are modified in a less degree than those in the females 

 of the white-headed species." 



WHITE-HEADED MAKOUEI. 



If the reader will refer to the note on Pee-ay-man, he will see 

 that the Maroudi is thought to be a bird of good spiritual 

 influence. This is the Jacatinga of Spix. ' 



Moco-Moco Tree (Galladium a/rboreseens) . 



Monkey, Brown {Gebus Apella). — This monkey is well 

 known in England, and is very intelligent. Some years ago 

 there was one in the Zoological Gardens who had been taught 

 to crack nuts with a stone, if he found them too hard for his 

 teeth. He taught a companion the same art, and it was most 

 absurd to see the two sitting side by side, and cracking nuts 

 alternately. They never seemed to quarrel about the pos- 

 session of the stone, but as soon as one had cracked a nut, he 

 put down the stone and the other took it up. They had worn 

 the stone quite smooth by continual use. 



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