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WANDERINGS IN 



Second them, you caiinot help stopping to admire them as they 



Journey, 



wave to and fro, the sport of every storm and breeze. 



The rump is chestnut ; ten feathers of the tail are a fine 

 yelloAv, the remaining two, which are the middle ones, 

 are black, and an inch shorter than the others. His bill 

 is sulphur colour ; all the rest of the body black, with 

 here and there shades of brown. He has five or six long 

 narrow black feathers on the back of his head, which he 

 erects at pleasure. 



There is one more species of Cassique in Demerara, 

 which alwa^^s prefers the forests to the cultivated parts. 

 His economy is the same as that of the other Cassiques. 

 He is rather smaller than the last described bird. His 

 body is greenish, and his tail and rump paler than those 

 of the former, Half of his beak is red; 



Wood- You would not be long in the forests of Demerara, 



peckers. 



without noticing the Woodpeckers. You meet with them 

 feeding at all hours of the day. Well may they do so. 

 Were they to follow the example of most of the other 

 birds, and only feed in the morning and evening, they 

 would be often on short allowance, for they sometimes 

 have to labour three or four hours at the tree before 

 they get to their food. The sound which the largest 

 kind makes in hammering against the bark of the tree, is 

 so loud, that you would never suppose it to proceed from 

 the effbrts of a bird. You would take it to be the wood- 

 man, with his axe, trying by a sturdy blow, often repeated;^ 



