frequent stops gave rae opportunity to botarize^ This is cattle country^ 
but except along the roads the land is not overgrazed,, Aristida pallenCi 
seen in the right foreground, cones in in overgrazed places. 
It took us 4 days to go Z12 km* The Brasilians are never oppressed 
by flight of time as v^q are. Mr. Maxwell says they have gone directly 
from the oxcart to the motoraar without the horse and wagon in between, 
and still have an oxcart psychology. Delay of a day or t^o is nothing 
to worry about. 
[Slide 5t Oxcart we passed] 
We sav; many flocks of rhea, called enu in Brazil, mostly he^ns and 
little chicks only about 2 feet tall, the largest was a flock of 19, 
occasionally , solitary tall dark cocks. We saw a few deer, and after 
dark^an arm^adillo. Their holes wore everywhere. The crested screamef, 
called ceriem, ran before the cars instead of flying away or turning 
aside t The gavao^ a large hawk, nearly as large as an osprey, and the 
urubu rei, king vulture, were frequent, the vulture comraonly lighting on 
tenrdte nests and quite fearless, A little owl which flies by day is 
coniraon. It sat on the ant hills and bobbed at passers by. The quero-quero 
(so named from its cry) was corrimon. It is a beautiful bird allied to the 
plovers, S-^ud^. 1 wished I were an ornithologist, the birds vvere so 
fascinating. At Lagoinha 
[Slide 6. Lagoinha] 
I saw a pair of tu-*yu-yu, very large black and white stork like birds« 
On the far side of the lake I found Panicum hemitcmoni the msiiden cane of 
our southern states, nof before kno?.n be^mnd our borders. Several grasses 
have this puzzling distribution, some orly knovm f rom '-^exas and agrd n 
in Paraguay or Argentina. At Dourados there were parrots in millions* 
