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trust ing to it. After remaining very quiet for a long¬ 
time on a high branch it descended again by the same liane 
which it still clasped with its fore and hind feet but it 
now used its tail, also, curling the end into a hook or 
ring about the liane but not sufficiently tightly to 
afford any support but rather, evidently, as a measure of 
precaution in case the feet should slip. It appeared to 
wish to reach the ground again where Lichfold thought there 
must be a female concealed among the bushes, but if this 
was so our presence deterred it. It was a very pretty 
creature,, much neater-looking and more alert and graceful 
than I had supposed. Its facial expression reminded me 
somewhat of that of a Fox. 
Near the falls I saw a Coutopus brachytarsus 
at work on its nest which was placed about forty feet 
above the ground in the fork of a stout, horizontal branch 
of a bo is immortel. In general appearance as well as in 
the position this nest was almost identical with that of 
our Wood Pewee which, indeed, this bird resembles very 
closely in every way except in its notes which are a short 
quip and a low twitter. 
As we were passing under a large tree which over¬ 
hung the path and beneath which the ground was literally 
covered with a small, berry-like fruit, I caught a glimpse 
