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ten minutes or more, although they were in a small tree 
about 35 feet above the ground. One of them held a large 
berry in the tip of its bill but it would not either drop 
it or swallow it while I was watching it. Both birds sat 
in rather crouching attitudes. They rolled their heads 
from side to side much in the manner of Vireos but on the 
whole they reminded me most of Jays, especially in their 
movement when hopping from t?/ig to twig. 
A frequent and characteristic sound in these 
tropical woods is that of the falling of heavy fruit which 
comes down every fev/ minutes, crashing through the leaves 
and striking the ground with great force. Perhaps the 
largest and heaviest is the fruit of the Cannon Ball Tree. 
Ea,ch fruit is as large as a coconut and weighs seven or 
eight pounds. 
Studying the foliage carefully tnis morning, I 
became satisfied that if one excludes the palms (which are 
nowhere at all numerous or conspicuous in the primitive 
forest) and the parasitic plants (Calladurus, etc.) the 
leaves are, almost without exception, smaller than at the 
North. Another fact which interests me is that here and 
there one sees leaves fully ripe and about to fall which are 
colored with what we should call autumn tints and the ground 
under some of the trees is strewn with yellow, crimson or 
russet leaves that have recently fallen and among Vifhich the 
