3§8 TRAVELS IN 
will be related in my ornithology. I fliall 
only here affure the reader that the two fly- 
catchers defcribed under that name, one of 
which is red, and the other almoft white, and 
which are given as twodiftind: fpecies, formab- 
folutely only one ; and this variety in the colour 
arifes from the difference of the feafons. One 
may be eafily convinced of the truth of this, 
by examining in my colleftlon one of thefe 
birds, which ftill partaking of both ftates 
clearly (hews the fuccefiive paffage from white 
to red. 
That which I had killed never experienced 
fuch a change ; and this diftindion alone 
ought to make us not confound them, as has 
been hitherto done, but to eftabUfli a new 
fpecies. 
After ^depofiting my capture in my tent, I 
returned to the camp of my guefts ; but I 
found there only men ; all the women had dif- 
appeared : and I learned that they were gone 
to bathe. Being curious toffee this ceremony, 
I repaired to the river ; and I was not long in 
difcovering them, for their voices and laughter 
foon conduded me to the fpot. Having glided 
foftly along between the trees and bufhes, I 
got clofe to the bank without being perceived, 
and 
