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hand." In one of the huts of the Pacimonales 

 we made the acquisition of two large fine birds, 

 a toucan (piapoco)*, approaching the ramphas- 

 tos erythrorhynchos, and an ana, a species of 

 macaw, seventeen inches long, having the whole 

 body of a purple colour, like the p. macao. We 

 had already in our canoe seven parrots, two ma- 

 nakins (pipra), a motmot, two guans, or pavas de 

 monte, two manaviris (cercoleptes or viverra 

 caudivolvula), and eight monkeys, namely, two 

 ateles~}~, two titis^:, one viudita||,two douroucou- 

 lis or nocturnal monkeys^, and the cacajao with 

 a short tail^[. Father Zea whispered some com- 

 plaints at the daily augmentation of this ambula- 

 tory collection. The toucan resembles the raven 

 in it's manners and intelligence. It is a coura- 

 geous animal, but easily tamed. It's long and 

 stout beak serves to defend it at a distance. 

 It makes itself mast er of the house, steals what- 

 ever it can come at, and loves to bathe often 



* Kiapoco, or aviapoca. 



+ Marimonda of the Great Cataracts, simia belzebuth, 

 Brisson. 



t Simia sciurea, the saimiri of Buffon. (See my Rec. 

 <T Observ. de Zoologie, vol. i, p. 327, 334, 353, and 357.) 

 || Simia lugens. (Ib., p. 319). 



§ Cusicusi or simia trivirgata. (Ib. p. 307 and 358.) This 

 is the aotus of Illiger. 



^[ Simia melanocephala, mono feo. (Ib. p. 3L7.) These 

 last three species are new. 



