Through the Hraziliau ll'ilJcnicts. 
" TiiK RiVKU OF Douht: On February Jjth, 1914, 
shortly after mid-day, we started down the River of Oouljt into 
the unknown .... 1 kept our canoe to let Cherrie 
collect, for in the early hours we could hear a number of birds 
in the wood near by. The most interesting' birds he shot were 
a cotint;a, brilliant turquoise-blue with a mai^enta-purple throat, 
and a bit4' woodpecker, black above and cinnamon below, with 
an entirely red head and neck .... Just before reachint;" 
camp Cherrie shot a Jacu, a handsome bird somewhat akin to 
but niuch smaller than, a turkey; .... the false bell- 
birds uttered their ringing whistles in the dense timber around 
our tents .... Now and again little troops of birds of 
many kinds passed — wood-hewers, ant-thrushes, tanagers, fly- 
catchers .... We camped at the foot of the rapids. 
There were many small birds here, but it was extremely difficult 
to see or shoot them in the lofty tree-tops, and to find them in 
the tangle beneath if they were shot. However, Cherrie got 
four species new to the collection. One was a tiny hummer 
one of the species known as woodstars, with dainty, but not 
brilliant, plumage; its kind is never found except in the deep, 
dark woods, not coming out into the sunshine. Its crop was 
filled with ants; when shot it was feeding at a cluster of lony 
red flowers. He also got a very handsome trogon and an 
exquisite little tanager, as brilliant as a cluster of jewels; it, 
throat was lilac, its breast turquoise, its crown and forehead 
to!)az, while above it was purple-black, the lower part of the 
back ruby-red. This tanager was a female; 1 can hardlv 
imagine that the male is more brilliantly coloured. The fourtli 
bird was a queer hawk of the genus Ihyctcr. black, with a 
white belly, naked red cheeks and throat ,and red legs and feet. 
Its crop was filled with the seeds fruits and a few insect remains; 
and extraordinary diet for a hawk." 
" DOWX AX UXKXOWN RiVER INTO THE EqUATORT\'. 
Forest: At this camp he ?hot an interesting ant-thrush. It 
was the size of a warbler, iet-black. with white under-surfaces 
of the wings and tail, white on the tail-feathers, and a large spot 
of white on the back, normally almost concealed, the feathers on 
the back being long and fluffy. When he shot the bird, a male, it 
was showing off before a dim-coloured little bird, doubtless th-; 
