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Tlisy .flew over at daws gplng frcia the cerpado to the lialta and la 
ttoe ©veHiag flying Dack, roosting in th& loi? soattered tmm of .the cerrado, 
•BieF aim always in twos in the flocks as far as one osa see, and elwsys 
tamng. 5he flight 13 3liort, ropia,. and appeaw labor^^^^ 1 first saw 
tolcane liere, a «ether . awall speaies with orange beak, Thay.feo, are 
nearly always in pairs and nearly as toikatiT© as ths parrots. 
tr« Jay first Say in Matto Oisobso I kept flnfiing graas©a new .for 
Brazil r-i^yaguay and Argentine speoi^e. m Dourados I founa eevsra , 
'?h© Indians here 
[Quarany Indlane, settleiMBt near Dourados— 
lir» Maxwell the missionary the tell mm to ri^^tj 
belong to the auareny,. a Pamguay tribe. fhey grow miz^ aM squashsB 
The trees ar® not CTjltivatod but arc coamon in tho region. This is the 
entire population of the settlesent. 
CA baily seared little Indian] 
Clnciian boy with a toaten] 
CA girl, who poaed mom willingly, with the 
ssiie poor tctt, . ] 
Returning to Oeiupo arande, I went on to Porto Isparan^a on Rio 
far^ay. This is the pontenal, of which Expresident noosoYe]* wrota 
ao feelingly— and you could multiply what h© anys 10-fold and then not 
overdo the torase^nt of instots. fhe pontenal is freah-water aarsh wMsh 
axtonds aany lailes eastward fr« Rio Faraguay. I had two days of gooS 
botanizing and ©xqmlslte torture, fcstuitoes, raldgea, that gat behind 
elassee, biting flies of assorted sir.ae, tlclce and other bichos 
innuaerabla. 
