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only ba recognized by its sbape, the feathers having changed 

 from brilliant orange to a dull yellowish brown. 



The followincr account of this bird is taken from Mr. 0. B. 



o 

 Brown's work on Guiana : — 



" Cocks of the Rook were numerous in the surrounding 

 thickets, where their sharp disagreeable cry was frequently 

 heard. 



" They are so restless, jumping and flying from bough to 

 bough, and tree to tree, that Paulie, who was trying to shoot 

 them, started five, but only succeeded in obtaining one 

 specimen. He found a dancing place of these birds in a 

 thicket, the ground being beaten down quite smooth by their 

 feet ; and on visiting it early in the morning with Ben, the two 

 together succeeded in shooting two cocks and a hen bird. They 

 told me that there were numbers around the dancing place, and 

 that the two cocks they shot were strutting about with their 

 feathers distended, showing themselves oS before the rest." 



Only the adult males possess the rich orange plumage, the 

 females and immature males being of a dull yellow-green, and 

 having but a small crest. The bird, though the largest of the 

 Manakins, is but a small one, being scarcely equal in size to a 

 Tumbler pigeon. 



Coffee. — It is rather remarkable that the two chief pro- 

 ducts of the West Indies, namely Coffee and ugar, are both 

 natives of the Old World, and have been acclimatized in the 

 New. 



Coffee, as its name imparts, Coffma Arabica, is indigenous to 

 Northern Africa, and was im.ported into Europe as a curiosity. 

 Not much more than a hundi-ed and fifty years ago a single 

 layer of two slips was taken from Holland to Martinique, and 

 it throve so well that it furnished a supply for the whole 

 of the West Indies. 



There is a romantic story connected with its introduction. 

 A Frenchman, named Desclieux, had charge of the plant. 

 On the voyage the vessel fell in with a series of storms, and 

 all on board were put on short allowance of water. The 



