Til rough till' HraaU'uiu Wilderness. 
Bra/ii.: Cherrie i^ot many Ijirds .... AJoscs. the ])ct 
owl, .sat on a cro.s.s-l)ar overliead, an interested spectatcn^, and 
cluickled whenever he was pettecL 'J'wo wrens, who bred just 
out.side the hut, were nmcli excited I)y the ])resencc of Alo.ses, 
and jjaid iiini visits of noisy nnfriendliness. The httle VVln'te- 
throated .Sparrows came famiharly about the i)ahn caljin^ and 
whitewashed houses, and trilled on the roof-trees .... 
There were towering' trees with buttressed trunks, whoso 
leaves made a fretwork against the sky far o^ erliead. Gori^eous 
Red and (ireen Troyons, with loni^ tails, perched motionless on 
the lower branches and uttered a loud thrice^repeated whistle. 
W'e heard the calliu!:^' of the false Bell-bird, which is ,^'rey instead 
of white like the true bell-l)irds; it keeps among the very top- 
most branches .... There were Rheas-— ostriches — and 
small pampas deer on this i)lain ; the colouration of the rheas 
made it difficult to see them at a distance .... In spite of 
the rain Cherrie and Miller made a good collection of birds 
. One of the most interesting was a large black and 
white woodpecker, the white predominating in the plumage. 
Several of these woodpeckers were usually found together. 
They were showy, noisy, and restless, and perched on twigs, in 
ordinary bird fashion, at least as often as they clung to the 
trunks in orthodox woodpecker style. The prettiest bird was a 
tiny mannakin, coal black, with a red and orange head." 
" Across Nhambiquar.\ L.\xd : The camp was in old 
and grown up fields, once the seat of a rather extensive maize 
and mandioc cultivation by the Nhambic|naras. On this dav 
Cherrie got a number of birds new to the collection, and two o'* 
three of them probably new to science. We had found the 
birds for the most part in worn plumage, for the breeding 
season, the southern spring and northern fall, was over. But 
some birds were still breeding. In the tropics the breeding 
season is more irregular than in the north. Some birds breed 
at very different times from that chosen by the majority of their 
fellows : some can hardly be said to have any regular season ; 
Cherrie found one species of honey-creeper breeding in every 
month of the year. Just before sunset and just after sunrise 
big, noisy. Blue and Yellow Macaws flew over this camp. They 
were plentiful enough to form a loose flock, but each pair kept 
to itself, the two individuals always separated from the rest, 
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