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strong, distinct, and abrupt : many of these tangaras 

 have a fine song. They seem to partake much of the 

 nature of our linnets, sparrows, and finches. Some of 

 them are fond of the plantations ; others are never seen 

 there, preferring the wild seeds of the forest to the 

 choicest fruits planted by the hand of man. 



On the same fig-trees to which they repair, 

 speS^"" and often accidentally up and down the 



forest, you fall in with four species of 

 Manikin. The largest is white and black, with the 

 feathers on the throat remarkably long ; the next in size 

 is half red and half black ; the third, black, with a white 

 crown ; the fourth, black, with a golden crown, and red 

 feathers at the knee. The half red and half black 

 species is the scarcest. There is a creek in the Demerara 

 called Camouni. About ten minutes from the mouth 

 you see a common-sized fig-tree on your right hand, as 

 you ascend, hanging over water ; it bears a very small 

 fig twice a year. When its fruit is ripe, this manikin 

 is on the tree from morn till eve. 



On all the ripe fig-trees in the forest you 

 Tiger-bix?^^ SCO the bird called the small Tiger-bird. 



Like some of our belles and dandies, it has a 

 gaudy vest to veil an ill-shaped body ; the throat, and 

 part of the head, are a bright red ; the breast and belly 

 have black spots on a yellow ground ; the wings are a 

 dark green, black, and white ; and the rump and tail 

 black and green. Like the manikin, it has no song : it 

 depends solely upon a showy garment for admiration. 

 Devoid, too, of song, and in a still superber garb, the 



Yawaraciri comes to feed on the same tree. 



It has a bar like black velvet from the eyes 



waracin. «^ 



to the beak ; its legs are yellow ; its throat, 

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