LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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In the South American Wilderness. Frontispiece 



1. Map of our Trip through the Mangrove Wilderness 2 



2. Our Sloop entering the Mangroves 5 



3. Scarlet Ibises in Flight 7 



4. Young Mangrove Plants 11 



5. The Crucifix in the Catfish 13 



6. Parrot Puff-fish 15 



7. Four-eyed Fish 16 



8. Our Floating Home at La Ceiba 18 



9. Exploring the Caiios in a Dug-out 21 



10. White Orchids 23 



11. Sun-bittern 25 



12. Solution of the Mangrove Mvsterv — an Anaconda 27 



13. Hoatzins in the Bamboos on the Guarapiche 28 



14. First Glimpse of the Venezuela Mountains 31 



15. Colony of 150 Cassiques' Nests in One Tree t,-^ 



16. Nest and Eggs of Yellow-backed Cassique 34 



17. Venezuelan Tree Porcupine 36 



18. Wild Chachalaca near a Guanaco Hut 38 



19. Scorpion and its Young taken from Milady's Shoe 39 



20. Yellow Woodpecker 41 



21. Owl Butterfly on Cocoa Bark 42 



22. Lizard Alert on Trunk of Tree 44 



23. The Same Lizard a Moment Later, Obliterated by Change of 



Position 45 



24. Nest and Eggs of Great Blue Tinamou 47 



25. Woodhewer clinging to the Trunk of a Tree 50 



26. Streaked Flycatcher 51 



The Jungle Railroad 56 



Spider Lilies near Pitch Lake 57 



La Brea — The Lake of Pitch 59 



The fatal "Mother of the Lake" 61 



White-headed Chimachima Hawk and F^ta Palm 62 



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