APPENDIX-ZOOLOGY. 



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top of the bigliest trees in the woods, and there passes the principal part of the day in a song, which 

 imitates well a farrier just finishing a horse's shoe upon the anvil. 



AzuLAO is a species of sparrow, of an indigo-colour, which, after being accustomed to the cage, 

 imitates various other small birds. 



Bemtrvi, so called by the Europeans in consequence of its articulating with accuracy the words 

 which compose its name, is the size of a lark, with a white circle around the head, a thick and pointed 

 bill, having a yellow belly, and a gold colour above. 



BicUDO is a kind of sparrow, either of an agate or gold colour, sings, and has a very short thick 

 bill. 



Barbudo is little less than a blackbird, also black, with a large white spot on the back, and a 

 yellow one on the neck, a short tail and legs, a large head, with thick eye-brows, a jet black bill, a 

 little curved and pointed, having whiskers. 



Cabeca de PvUbim {Head of Ruby) is a species of duck, of a green colour, with a little crimson 

 cap, which it conceals at pleasure, as well as the feathers of its sides. The female has a larger and 

 black cap. 



Caboke is the small Spanish owl. 



CAI9U, which signifies large head, is of the size of a lark, of a disagreeable aspect, with the wings 

 and tail of a tobacco and the belly of an ash colour, having a white spot upon the neck, the upper 

 part of the body gray and speckled with white, a thick neck and bill, the latter black pointed, 



Canario {Canary) has the form, and almost the same colour, but not the song of those of the 

 Canary islands. It is the first amongst the small birds that announces the dawn of day. 



Cancao is of the size of a blackbird, the belly white, the upper part dark, with a long round tail, 

 and white at the extremity. The fore part of the head, neck, and breast, are of a jet colour. It has 

 a large white spot upon the back part of the head, a small black crest, a small round spot above the 

 eyes, beginning with blue and finishing in white ; the iris is yellow, which it extends and compresses, 

 and the beak thick and short. This bird always goes near the ground, and on perceiving any living 

 creature immediately gives a signal. It is the most choleric bird of the country, and a destroyer of 

 the others, eating the eggs and the young ones whilst unfeathered. 



Cardial {Cardinal) is a little larger than the linnet, which it resembles. It has a small crimson 

 cap, or hood, which covers a part of the neck, and from which it derived the name: its song is loud 

 and pleasant. 



Carrica (Hedge-sparrow) differs from that of Europe only in being a little larger, and less 

 fearful. It makes its nest, with little care, in inhabited houses or the fields. 



Chama-Coelho is a little less than the blackbird, with a black head, the lower part yellow, and 

 the upper of a tobacco colour. 



Cegonha, or Stork, is common, and similar to that of Europe. 



Cazaca de Coiro is of the size of a lark, yellow above, and gray under the belly. 



Colhereira, which with justice has the pre-eminence of king amongst birds of the morasses, is 

 the size of a large capon, without a tail, of a rose colour above, the belly white, with long legs, 

 long white neck, the bill also long and thick at the root, square in the middle, wide and flat at the 

 point, like a Spatula. 



CoLiBRi, or Humming-bird, and known in the Brazil only by the name of Beija Flor, (Kiss the 

 Flower,) is the smallest bird existing. Mr. Robert has represented it to be as small as a fly, 

 in which he does not appear to be correct, as none so diminutive are seen in this country. Their 



