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which were perched on their tops. We were obliged to throw away 

 a number of fine blossoms from sappy plants, because they so 

 quickly rotted, and could not be kept in the herbarium. The 

 largeness and fulness of South American vegetation is produced 

 by the great moisture which pervades these forests ; in this respect, 

 America possesses considerable advantage overfall other hot coun- 

 tries. 



Arrived on the height of Serra de Inuä^ we saw parrots with 

 red foreheads {psittactis coronafus of the Berlin musuem, or the 

 Perroquet Dufesne of Le Vaillant), Hying in pairs over the trees ; 

 they are here called camutanga^ and in other parts schaua. We 

 have since often used them at our meals. Continuing our road, we 

 descended into a plain, and spent the night m the Fazenda de 

 Jnu 'J. Here we saw remarkably large oxen and fat pigs of a short 

 blac'v breed, with a bent back, long snout, and hanging ears, hens, 

 turkies, guinea-fowls, partly with white feathers, geese of the Eu- 

 ropean species, and the anas moschata, Linn, which are accustom- 

 ed to fly away and re. urn. 



The Serm de Inuä is a point of the higher chain of mountains 

 which runs parallel with the coast, projecting into the sea. It is 

 covered with ancient forests, in which many useful trees grow, and 

 is particularly productive of game. We stayed here a day, pur- 

 posely to hunt, and got a number of fine birds. Here Mr. Frey- 

 reiss shot at the simia rosalia, Linn, known by the name of mari- 

 tana, and called here red salui, but missed it ; it lives in the thickest 

 forests, and is only met with towards the south, in the vicinity of 

 Rio Janeiro and Cabo Frio. Parrots are very numerous in these 

 mountainous woods, particularly a species called here Maracana, to 

 which, among others, belong the psittacus macaona7ina and guia^ 

 nensis. Leaving Inuä, we found in the shade of an ancient wild 

 forest, many objects totally unknown to us. On the ground ap- 

 peared the hairy bush-spider, aranha caranguefeira, (arania avicu- 

 laria. Linn.) the bite of which is said to produce a painful swell- 

 ing ; it makes holes and lives in the earth. We also met with a 

 variety of large broad toads, though not so numerous as in the 

 Serra, which we had just left; for there, when the evening 

 came on, the ground was entirely spread with them. Among them 

 I noticed a species which has not, I think, been hitherto described, 

 (the bufo limaculatus), remarkable for two large dark squares on 

 its back. Immense long tabs of tillandria descend from the white 

 mimosa trees in the forest. We saw also a bird (procuias medi- 

 collis) of a milk white colour, sitting in the brightest sun-shine up- 

 on a dry branch at the top of a tree. His cry is like the sound of 

 a hammer striking an anvil, or a bright sounding burst bell ; he is 

 of the genus which Illigen has named procuias; on the whole 

 eastern coast he is called araporga. In colour he most resembles 

 Linn^'s ampelis carunculata, though a different bird, being sufH- 



