CHAPTER X. 



The Domestic Animals — Cows — Horses — Mules — Hogs — Fowls- 

 Dogs — Wild Animals — Monkeys — "Wild Hogs— The Tapir, Oce- 

 lot, Jaguar, Bears, &c— Birds and their Habits— The Toucon — 

 The Parrot Tribe — The Scarlet Macaw — Humming Birds and 

 their Habits — Aquatic Birds — -Reptiles — Alligators, Boa Constric- 

 tors, Ignanos, &c. 



The domestic animals of the Isthmus are horned 

 cattle, horses, mules, hogs, and fowls. The . cattle 

 herds are quite numerous ; every native who owns 

 land keeps a drove of sometimes fifty or a hundred, 

 which they value at forty or fifty dollars a head, 

 their currency, being equal to thirty-two and forty 

 dollars our money. They are smaller than the aver- 

 age of North American cattle, but hardy looking, 

 and tough beyond a question, even after having been 

 subjected to the usual processes of cooking. The 

 natives seldom ever milk their cows, and when they 

 do, it will be so irregularly that they soon cease to 

 afford milk sufficient to reward them for the trouble. 

 The horses are small but enduring, and often of 

 a very perfect figure. They are not numerous, as 

 mules are principally used. Neither are kept to any 

 great extent, except between Gorgona and Panama, 



