APPENDIX—ZOOLOGY. 



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GUARA, one of the handsomest birds that frequent the morasses, has the body siinihsr to a par- 

 tridge, a long neck and legs, with the bill long and a little curved, and without a tail. The first 

 feathers are white, after a short time they turn black, and /"nally scarlet, preserving the second 

 colour at the extremity of the wings. 



Garca, or Heron, consists of small and large white ones, and also others which are large and of 

 an ash colour. 



Gaviao, or Hawk, includes various kinds, of which the Cauhan is small, and the Corocuturu gray, 

 being four spans in length from th'^ head to the extremity of the tail, and will seize a small monkey 

 and fly away with it with great facility. 



Grunhata is the size of a robin-red-breast, yellow below and on the front of the head, the rest 

 of a dark colour, except some blue parts. Its song is harmonious. There are other sorts, some 

 of them yellow, with the tail and wings green, and a black stroke the whole length of the lower 

 part. 



JABURU is larger than the turkey-cock, witiiout a tail, and white as snow; the neck, legs, and bil! 

 are very long; the latter is pointed. 



Jacanan is little less than the thrush, the breast green, the upper part of a tobacco colour, with 

 the wings short and round, the tail very short, with eight small feathers, the eyes and legs of a rosy 

 hue, a fine bill, and a green spot on the front part of the head. It goes always upon the ground. 



Jacu is the size of a large capon, black, with the figure of a turkey-hen. 



Jacutinga is a little larger, with the same figure and colour, having green legs, and half of the 

 wings white, a green bill and large black eyes, the feathers on the upper part of the head are long and 

 white, the breast is speckled with white. 



Jacu-Pemba is smaller than the first, with the breast of an ash colour. The «r«CM«re is also a 

 species of jacu, the size of a pigeon, with the tail and neck long, of a dark yellowish hue. These 

 four birds have wattles at the throat similar to a turkey-hen. 



Japu is the size of a pigeon, black, with a yellow tail, the bill of the same colour, thick, long, 

 round, and finely pointed ; when it sings it suspends itself by the feet, at the same time beating with 

 its wings. 



Japue is less, and of the same colour, with a large green spot upon the back, the eyes small and the 

 iris blue. Both construct the same kind of nests, which are remarkable for the form and for the art 

 with which they make them at the extremity of the highest horizontal branches, in the shape of a bag 

 or pocket, and five or six spans in length ; they are of moss, woven in such a way that they move 

 continually to and fro with the wind, without sustaining any injury. Such is their precaution to 

 prevent their young from being injured by surrounding enemies. They destroy oranges profusely 

 to obtain the seed. 



Inhuma is the size of a capon, with dark sides, the belly ash colour, and llie wings of an extraor- 

 dinary length, being ten spans when extended, each with two spurs of an unequal size, and a horn 

 of a bony substance half a span in length and the thickness of a large turkey-quil, sharp pointed, 

 and a little curved at the extremity, with a magnetic virtue, and also with the property of counter- 

 poison. When about to drink it introduces this antidote against poison into the water, and the 

 birds and quadrupeds near it, it is said, then only drink. Its flesh is spongy and not eaten. Tliere 

 are other kinds of this bird about the size of a pigeon. 



Joao-de-Barro is a species of lark, yellow, with a whitish streiik above the eyes, and only 

 remarkable for the arrangement of its nest of barro, or clay, from which its n.uue is derived. The 



