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The rapid firing seemed to rettle the birds for 
inatead of flying away they kept passing back and forth over 
our heads, alighting in the tops of the tallest trees and 
uttering their peculiar calls incessantly. This call is a 
raucous or rasping croak. It is very loud and penetrating 
and can be heard nearly a quarter of a mile away when the 
conditions are favorable, I heard another cry this morning, 
a short, low, deep, rolling whistle. 
In these woods I heard a succession of long whistling 
notes, very loud and rather musical. On following up the 
bird I found it to be a Dendrornis. 
A strange 
Woodpecker 
While watching the Toucans, I saw a Woodpecker nearly 
as large as Ceophlaeus plleatus with the upper parts of a 
uniform dull yellowish green, the lower parts of much the 
same color but apparently obscurely barred, a very large 
and long crest which I think was very light brown or 
brownish v/hite. This bird alighted against the trunk of 
a tree within less than twenty yards of me and in a good 
strong light. He climbed slowly up a few yards and then 
flew to a liane and ascended that. He made no sound what¬ 
ever. To my great surprise, Mr. Chapman failed to recog¬ 
nize the species from my description. Indeed, he says that 
no such bird is knownl 
At about noon Mr. Albert Carr brought in a Bell 
Bird which he had killed a mile or more away in the woods 
to the eastward and which he gave me. The curious appendages 
