A YEAR IN BRAZIL. 



but it is so pleasant to awake and feel them running races 

 all over one's body, and to be too sleepy to rouse one's self 

 for a hunt. 



Paroquets absolutely abound about here, and toucans 

 are numerous, as also orioles. I wish I could bring some 

 of them home.* 



To-night the weather is perfect ; one can see to read by 

 the clear light of the full moon, the sky is cloudless, and 

 the outlines of the mountains — tier above tier — are softened 

 by her mild rays, while the stillness is only broken by the 

 ceaseless chirrup of the crickets and the harsh croak of the 

 bull-frogs. These balmy nights make up for the fatigues 

 of the day, but the temptation is very strong just to sit or 

 lie idle and enjoy them. 



It may interest you to hear the high-sounding names of 

 my workmen. The three sons of my first guide, Fortunato 

 da Costa Campo, are Jocelino, Antonio, and Lino Camille 

 Lellis. There are besides, Francisco Josd Ramaes, and 

 his son Francisco da Cunha Ramaes, Aleixo Tavares de 

 Carvalho (the cook), Jos^ Antonio Ferreira, Candido Jos^ 

 Querino, and Antonio Josd Brumo de Carvalho. As it is 

 always the rule to call every one by their Christian names 

 here, I generally take the first, except when two bear the 

 same praenomen. 



* On leaving Rio de Janeiro (July, 1884), I bought two green paroquets, 

 two crimson tanagers, Tanagra brasilia, and two green tanagers, Calliste, 

 or Tanagra tricolor (Tanagrinse, Fringillidse). One paroquet died before 

 reaching Pernambuco, where I bought two more ; but they all died before we 

 touched at St. Vincent. One of the red birds pecked his brother to death, 

 and the other died before he had been three weeks in England. The green 

 tanagers — -which I was told were the most delicate of all the birds I had — 

 survived, and though one died after about a month's stay in England, the 

 other survived till November i, 1S84, when he expired after a long and painful 

 illness ; his feet were covered with white blisters, and he appeared to suffer 

 much from these. 



