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The hunters hereabouts were familiar with the 

 jaguar {tigre), and a smaller spotted tiger cat, or 

 ocelot, which they call hidnduri. When I described 

 the Yaguarondi, they exclaimed leoncillo. They speak 

 of the Peccary as la havelina. 



I was very anxious to see curassoAvs and guans which 

 were said to be found in the jungles not far from our 

 camp, and when I described, as best I could, these birds 

 to a Mexican, he exclaimed that there were a number 

 of tame ones at a neigchboring: hacienda. We rode 

 there one morning, six or seven miles through thick 

 forest and marsh, I lugging my largest camera, only 

 to find, instead of the anticipated guans, a bevy of 

 gobbling domestic turkeys. The disappointment and 

 chagrin of my Mexican guide, when he saw that they 

 were not what I had expected, made it impossible to 

 be out of temper with him. 



One day while walking quietly through a dense part 

 of the jungle, where tall, thick-leaved trees shut out 

 the light and hence caused an absence of thick under- 

 growth, I saw a bird fly from a perch, catch an insect 

 in mid-air and dart back. I had not found any fly- 

 catchers heretofore in this thickly wooded section, and, 

 though my heart sank when I saw its back and wings 

 of the usual indefinite flycatcher-hues of light gray, 

 and knew that exact identification without a gun would 

 be next to impossible, I approached the bird. It again 

 flew into the air and attain returned to its favourite 



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