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APPENDIX— ZOOLOGY. 



Sanhaco is a sort of greenfinch. 



Sertema is a little larger than the turkey-hen ; its song is simple and tender, it goes generally upon 

 the ground, and flies little. 



Serrador is a small bird of a blackish colour, with the beak similar to a sparrow, it only perches 

 upon dry and naked branches, is like the ortolan, and is incessantly rising perpendicularly two or three 

 spans, alighting upon the same place, and keeping in its movement the time of a serra, or saw ; it has 

 no song, nor is its plumage beautiful. 



SoFFRER, to which the whites have given the name, pretending that it articulates the word in its 

 inharmonious song, is little less than the blackbird, of a gold colour, with the head, throat, tail, and 

 wings, black, excepting a white spot in the middle of the wings ; the tail is long, the bill round, long, 

 and pointed, likewise black, with two white spots on each side of the lower part; the iris yellow. 



Soco is a bird comprising various kinds, the white ones are the size of a large capon, without a tail, 

 with the legs a little long, the bill also long and blue, the fore part of the head is black, the hinder 

 part ornamented with a long pointed crest, falling back upon the neck, which is rather long. The 

 ash-coloured ones differ only from the preceding in colour. There is another larger than the black- 

 bird, being two spans and a half when the wings are opened, and three from the extremity of the bill 

 to that of the feet ; it is green on the upper part, and ash-coloured below, the bill is long and pointed, 

 the iris yellow, the neck a span in length, slightly covered with feathers, and spotted on the under 

 side ; the tail is two inches long, the head is black, with a crest. 



Tapera is a little larger than the blackbird, the whole of the body white, with the head, tail, 

 and wings black, the bill stout and pointed. 



Tyhe, or Tapiranga, is much larger than the sparrow, the feathers of the wings large, and those 

 of the tail black, the rest entirely crimson ; the bill is thick and black, with two white spots upon the 

 lower part. The tyhe negro (black tyhe) is the same size, with a green spot upon the head. 



TiNGARA is the size of a tentilhao, or chaffinch, of a sea green colour, with the head green, the 

 tail short, and the bill fine, short, and pointed. 



TucANO is the size of a pullet, black, with the breast between green and yellow ; the bill, a little 

 curved, is of a thickness and length disproportionably large for the body. The arassary is another 

 species of tucano, difl^ering in the colour of the feathers ; the bill is a little less and straight, its song 

 is the name by which it is designated. The tucano builds its nest in the cavities of old trunks, lays 

 only tv/o eggs, and its first plumage is white, it has on each side of the head a naked portion of a red 

 colour and varnished. 



TuYUYU is much larger than the turkey-cock, white, with the legs black, is very high, with rather 

 a long neck, the bill pointed, without a tail, and is the height of a man ; it feeds at the margins of 

 lakes, and its sustenance is fish. 



VmvA is the size of a sparrow, black, with the head white, and the tail proportioned. There is 

 another species of vima the size of a red robin, also black, with the head white, and the body a 

 little large from the feathers curling very much upon the upper part ; the bill is short and delicate ; it 

 always perches upon dry branches and does not sing. 



Urubu is a species of vulture, of the size of a turkey-cock, black, with the head hairy like it, the 

 bill proportioned and curved at the upper part. There are two other sorts of the urubu, both rare, 

 the one differs only in having a portion green, the other, which is called urubu-rey, is of a whitish 

 ash colour, with the tail and wings black, the neck absolutely naked and fleshy, the head imperfectly 

 covered with a soft fur, the crop hairy, the eye-lids green, the iris very white, and the bill black. 



