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WANDERINGS IN 



Second tiiiely iiiqiiires if you have a hundred a year m land to 



JoUKNEY. 



entitle you to enjoy such patrician sport. Here no saucy 



intruder asks if you have taken out a license, by virtue of 

 Avhich you are allowed to kill the birds which have bred 

 upon your own property. Here 



You are as free as when God first made man, 

 Ere the vile laws of servitude began, 

 And wild in woods the noble savage ran." 



The Par- Bcforc the moming's dawn you hear a noise in the 



tridge. 



forest, w^iich sounds like " duraquaura " often repeated. 

 This is the Partridge, a little smaller, and differing some- 

 what in colour from the English partridge : it lives 

 entirely in the forest, and probably the young brood very 

 soon leave their parents, as you never flush more than 

 two birds in the same place, and in general only one. 

 Two species About the sauic hour, and sometimes even at mid- 



oftheMaam 



orTinamou. night, you hear two species of Maam, or Tinamou, 

 send forth their long and plaintive whistle from the depth 

 of the forest. The flesh of both is delicious. The largest 

 is plumper, and almost equals in size the black cock of 

 Northumberland. The quail is said to be here, though 

 rare. 



TheHanna- The Hauuaquoi, which some have compared to the 



pheasant, though with little reason, is very common. 

 The Powise Here are also two species of the Powise or Hocco, and 

 or Hocco. ^^^^ small wild turkies, called Maroudi ; they feed 



on the ripe fruits of the forest, and are found in all 



