AND 



AMONG 



THE BOTOCUDOS. 



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undescribed*, besides some araras, and a great mutiim^ ( crax alector 

 Linn.) which was very welcome to us for our table. The eagle was 

 just going to seize njupati (opossum), when he was shot; his whole 

 figure indicated boldness and courage : his eye was lively and fiery, 

 and the long feathers on the back of his head gave him a hand- 

 some appearance. 



As the continuance of the rainy weather often prevented us from 

 hunting, and especially from pursuing the anhumas, I took this op- 

 portunity to pay a visit to the Quartel dos Arcos, where, during my 

 absence, a fresh horde of Botocudos had arrived, whose chief, Marian- 

 giang, was called by the Portuguese Captain Gipakeiu, (the great 

 Captain). It was already towards evening, and I was only a short 

 distance from the station, when I accidentally saw, on a sand-bank, a 

 couple of large tapirs. To make more sure of success, I sent my 

 Botocudo, Aho, round by the wood, to cut off their retreat. When 

 the animals perceived that their retreat was intercepted, they plunged 

 into the water, and endeavoured to reach the opposite bank, but 

 here they were stopped by our canoe. One of the two tapirs, on 

 his return, again reached the sand-bank, and would have received an 

 arrow from my Botocudo, had not the string of his bow happened to 

 break, which gave the animal time to escape. We fired several times 

 at the other, which dived, and then raised its head above the water, 



* Falco Tyrannus, a new species : male bird, twenty six inches seven lines long; the fea- 

 thers of the back of the head lengthened and erect ; hinder part of the head and neck, sides 

 of the neck and upper part of the back, covered with white feathers, the tips of which are dark 

 brown, which however lie over each other in such a manner, that the white is covered ; all 

 the rest of the bird, dark brown ; larger covert feathers of the wings marked with a little 

 white ; quill feathers, with some grey brown dark-marbled transverse stripes ; the large 

 broad tail has four whitish transverse stripes, marbled with greyish brown ; feathers of the 

 thighs, legs, lower pait of the back, rump, and crissum, dark brown, with narrow white 

 transverse lines ; the feet feathered down to the toes. 



