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branch, or in the crotch of a tree. Among 
the smaller birds, I noticed bright Tanagers, 
and also a species resembling the canary. Be¬ 
sides these, there were the wagtails, the black 
and white widow finches, the liang-nests, or 
Jape, as they are called here, with their pen¬ 
dent bag-like dwellings, and the familiar “Bern 
ti vi.” Humming-birds, which we are always 
apt to associate with tropical vegetation, were 
very scarce. I saw but a few specimens. 
Thrushes and doves were more frequent, and 
I noticed also three or four kinds of wood¬ 
peckers. Of the latter there were countless 
numbers along our canoe path, flying overhead 
in dense crowds, and, at times, drowning every 
other sound in their high, noisy chatter. These 
made a deep impression upon me. Indeed, in 
all regions, however far away from his own 
home, in the midst of a fauna and flora en¬ 
tirely new to him, the traveller is startled 
occasionally by the song of a bird or the sight 
of a flower so familiar that it transports him 
at once to woods where every tree is like a 
friend to him. It seems as if something akin 
to what in our own mental experience we call 
reminiscence or association existed in the 
