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when it did not begin to rain till the evening, 

 during a thunder-storm. But even on these days, 

 we could not perceive any change in our electro- 

 meter; the thermometer varied between 12° and 

 ^0° Reaumur; the mornings and evenings were 

 usually cool. The vegetable world, revived by the 

 rain, began gradually to put forth, and the trees, 

 in the campos in particular, began to be covered 

 with flowers. The number of animals to be found 

 at this season, was in proportion small. The only 

 monkey we saw, was the brown howling monkey ; 

 and of the mammalia, the long-nosed tapir, the 

 agouti, the little armadillo, the papamel, and the 

 forest deer ; of birds, hardly any parrots, but tou- 

 cans, and several kinds of red-necked and blue 

 ravens (Coracma sciitata, Temmink ; Corvus cyano- 

 leucos, cyanopogon Neuw., decristatus nob.); of 

 insects, many large beetles (Copris), which live at a 

 considerable depth under ground. As we advanced 

 from this place towards the north, we could not 

 avoid observing that the diversity in the animal as 

 well as in the vegetable kingdom increases towards 

 the equator. Before we departed from this place 

 we sent all the collections we had hitherto made, in 

 chests, by way of S. Paulo and Santos, to Rio de 

 Janeiro ; and on the 10th of January, 1818, left the 

 pleasant Ypanema, our kind host, and the honest 

 Swedes, whom, being from the north of Europe, we 

 almost considered as our countrymen. 



