AND AMONG THE BOTOCUDOS. 



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commenced the fatiguing passage over the Cachoeirinha. Two boat- 

 men, who sometimes waded up to the middle in water, and sometimes 

 leaped from rock to rock, and occasionally slipped between the blocks 

 of stone up to the neck in water, drew the empty canoe, and the rest 

 of the people shoved behind. Meantime I clambered with my fowl- 

 ing-piece over the rocks on the bank, and shot a swallow of a species 

 which was new to me*; other species, the white and green, and red- 

 throated swallow every where flew about in numbers. A kind of 

 fly-catcher ( muscicapa J also builds among these rocks, with part of 

 the plumage of a rusty red li., which in the Sertam of Bahia is called 

 gibao de couro, or leather jacket. It is found in Minas, and even on 

 the east coast, but more rarely, and every where keeps among the 

 stones, or on the roofs of the houses. Among these rocks on the 

 Belmonte they are often seen sitting on the point of a block, from 

 which they fly perpendicularly upwards after the insects, and then 

 descend to their former place. All the plants lately found on this 

 spot were more fully in blossom, besides several pink or violet- 

 coloured trumpet-flowers, which blossom before the leaves appear, but 

 whose tufts of flowers unfortunately wither and fall ofl* very soon. 



When my boatmen had surmounted the falls of the Cachoeirinha, 

 the day was already far spent; and we therefore resolved to pass the 



* Hirundo melanoleuca, a new species ; with forked tail ; upper part of the body black, 

 lower part, white ; a black transverse stripe under the throat. Whole length five inches, four 

 and a half lines. 



t Hirundo leucoptera and ivgularis ; the latter, with a light rust-coloured throat, and pale, 

 yellowish belly, is probably Azara's Hirondelle d ventre jaunatrc. Azara, Voyages, Tom. IV. 

 page 105. 



X Muscicapa rupestris, a new species ; six inches eleven lines long ; all the upper parts of 

 the plumage, dark grey brown ; the lower, as well as the tail feathers, rusty red ; the latter 

 having broad, dark brown spots ; the feathers of the wings, dark brown, with irregular 

 rusty transverse stripes. 



