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 While in quest of the Houtou, you will now and then Second 



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fall in with the iay of Guiana, called by the Indians 



The Jay of 



Ibibirou. Its forehead is black, the rest of the head Guiana, 

 white ; the throat and breast like the English magpie : 

 about an inch of the extremity of the tail is white, the 

 other part of it, together with the back and wings, a grayish 

 changing purple ; the belly is white : there are generally 

 six or eight of them in company ; they are shy and 

 garrulous, and tarry a very short time in one place : they 

 are never seen in the cultivated parts. 



Through the whole extent of the forest, chiefly from 

 sunrise till nine o'clock in the morning, you hear a sound 

 of " wow, wow, wow, wow." This is the bird called Boc- The Boc- 



lora. 



lora by the Indians. It is smaller than the common 

 pigeon, and seems, in some measure, to partake of its 

 nature ; its head and breast are blue ; the back and 

 rump somewhat resemble the colour on the peacock's 

 neck ; its belly is a bright yellow ; the legs are so very 

 small that it always appears as if sitting on the branch ; 

 it is as ill adapted for walking as the swallow ; its neck, 

 for above an inch all round, is quite bare of feathers ; 

 but this deficiency is not seen, for it always sits with its 

 head drawn in upon its shoulders : it sometimes feeds 

 with the Cotingas on the Guava and Hitia trees ; but its 

 chief nutriment seems to be insects, and, like most birds 

 which follow this prey, its chaps are Avell armed with 

 bristles : it is found in Demerara at all times of the 



