up to ten o’clock, after which until noon birds of many 
kinds are very conspicuous and noisy. There is, I think, 
less singing and calling at sunset than at the N 0 rth, but 
this is the hour when we hear the Tinamou and Coq-bois most. 
After breakfast this morning I took a short walk 
through the cacao grove along the river. A loud flapping 
of wings, frequently repeated, came from a large tree on 
the further bank and presently I saw the bird -- a fine 
large Pigeon ( Columba speciosa ) with yellow bill and white- 
spotted breast. There were several of them in the tree 
which apparently bore snail berries on which they were 
feeding. 
Perched on the extreme tip of a dead twig over 
the water, sitting very erect and rolling its head about 
precisely like a Flycatcher was a Jacamar. Its green back 
glistened in the sunlight like the throat of one of the 
Hummingbirds found here. 
A fine male of Heterocnemis naevia. the first I 
have seen and a rare bird, Chapman tells me, was hopping 
about on the mud and exploring nooks and crannias under 
the hank much in the manner of a Carolina Wren. 
In the cacao grove I came upon a Dendroica susurrans 
and watched it for several minutes. Its motions, like 
those of all the others that I have seen, are — to my eye— 
much more like those of a Woodpecker than a Creeper, The 
