CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER II. 



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

 of Cayenne — LaGabrieUe — Cock of the Eosk— Grand Gobe-mouohe 

 — Surinam — The Coryntin — NewAmsterdam^Slabroek, now George 

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

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

 Oampanero, or Bell-bird — Toucans, or Toucanets — Beak of the 

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

 them 169-184 



CHAPTES III. 



The Hontou — Curious habit of trimming the tail and fealhers — its 

 habits — The Guianan Jay — The Eoclora — 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 — Jacamars and their 

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

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

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

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

 Homed Screamer — Trumpeter — King Vulture — Anhinga — Dangers 

 of travel — Quartan ague ..... . 185— "07 



THIRD JOURNEY. 



CHAPTER I. 



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

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

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

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

 ticated Sloth — A life of suspense— Structure of the .»air — Mark on 

 the back — Capture of a Sloth— Eelease 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 — Ai-madillo and its 

 habits— Tortoise— Eggs of Tortoise and Turtle .... 208—231 



