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his gun with mud during the mad chase for it hurst, at the 
muzzle, fortunately, and without harm to anytning hut the 
poor Quahk. These Peccaries have peculiar, deep sunken eyes. 
Otherwise they are typical Hogs . 
Late in the afternoon I walked up the road taking 
my gun as usual hut not intending to shoot anything unless 
a rare hird offered. The "six o'clock" Cicada began shrieking 
just as I left the house and when I reached the edge of 
the woods the sun had sunk helow the horizon and the whole 
of the open country to the eastward was illumined hy the 
araher light of the after-glow which is so constant a 
feature of the sunsets here. A few birds were singing -- 
Diplopteryx , Thamnophilus maj or ^ et doliatus . a Trogon or 
two, and a House Wren. These tropical birds do not, however, 
sing nearly so much at evening as in the early morning. 
Every now and then a huff-huff-huff-huff like the distant 
puffing of a locomotive would attract my attention to one 
of the big Corn-birds ( Ostinops ) flying high overhead on 
his way to some distant roost. This sound is made by the 
bird's vi/ings and is a regular accompaniment of its heavy, 
direct flight which is much like that of Quiscalus aeneus . 
The ordinary call of Ostinops is also exceedingly like the 
cac of our G-rackle. 
Very soon after sunset and before twilight had begun 
to fall — indeed, at the time when the amber light- was 
most intense — a multitude of Swifts and Bats appeared 
