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feathers are scarlet, and are fastened into a plaited fillet 

 which surrounds the head, very much as the Guianan natives 

 make their feather-crowns with the tail-feathers of macaws. 



On account of the aerial habits of the bird, it is not easy to 

 procure these feathers, and these islanders manage to supply 

 themselves by watching their nesting-places, crawling up to 

 them, and jerking out the feathers as they sit on their eggs. 



Waterton had great diflficulty in obtaining one of these 

 birds, but at last shot one, in a voyage across the Atlantic. 



TROPIC BIRD. 



He offered a guinea for the recovery of the bird, when a 

 Danish sailor plunged into the sea after it. He nearly lost 

 not only the reward, but his life, for no boat could be launched, 

 and the ship was going so fast through the water, that in trying 

 to back, she missed stays, and they had to wear her. How- 

 ever, the man kept himself afloat, and delivered the bird to 



