GEORGETOWN. 



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Armed with proper letters of introduction and travelling 

 in the name of science, one is treated with all courtesy by 

 Guiana officials. The customs give no trouble, save that 

 one pays a deposit of twelve per cent on cameras, guns and 

 cartridges. 



We were glad to find that the most difficult privilege to 

 obtain is a permit to collect birds, and the very stringent 

 laws in this respect are an honor to the Governor and his 

 colonial officials.* Thanks to the absence of the plume and 

 general millinery hunter, the game hog and the wholesale 

 collector, birds are abundant and tame. We were in the 

 colony just two months and shot only about one hundred 

 specimens, all of which were secured because of some special 



* In looking over the laws of the colony I found the following Wild 

 Birds' Protection CJrdinance. I have added the explanatory names in 

 parentheses. (C. W. B.) 



List of 

 Black Witch (Ani) 

 Campanero (Bell Bird) 

 Carrion Crow (Vulture) 

 Cassitjue 



Cock-of-the-Rock 

 Cotinga 

 Crane (Heron) 

 Creeper (Woodhewer) 

 Egret 

 Flycatcher 

 Gauldin (Heron) 

 Goatsucker 

 Grass Bird 



Wild Birds absolutely protected. 



Ground Dove Qu'est-ce qu'il dit (Kiskadee) 



Jacamar Shrike 



Hawk Sun Bird (Sun Bittern) 



Heron Sparrow 



Hummingbird Swallow 



Hutu (Motmot) Tanager 



Kingfisher Thrush 



Kite Toucan 



Macaw Trogan 



Manakin Troupial 



Martin Woodpecker 



Owl Wren 



Parroquet Vulture 



List of Wild Birds protected from April ist to Sept ist. 

 Bittern Hanaaua (Chachalaca) Plover 



Curlew 



Curri-curri (Scarlet Ibis) 

 Douraquara (Partridge) 

 Dove (other than Ground 

 Ibis Dove) 



Hanaqua (Chachalaca) 

 Maam (Tinamou) 

 Maroudi (Guan) 

 Negro-cop (Jabiru) 

 Parrot 

 Pigeon 



Powis (Curassow) 



Quail 



Snipe 



Spur-wing (Jacana) 



Trumpet-bird 



Wild Duck 



