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likely to be found in the fa6t of there being a water 
communication between the Abary and the Berbice at 
some distance up, along which the birds have spread 
almost throughout the whole course of the Abary. 
During two short visits to the lower part of 
the Canje Creek and the Berbice river in March 
and May of this year, I made an examination of the 
food contents of several specimens of the birds, and, 
without exception, nothing was found in them but the 
leaves of the " pimpler" (Drepanocarpus lunatus) which 
is extremely common in those districts. The Abary 
specimens, on the other hand, contained nothing but the 
leaves of the mucco-mucco (Montrichardia arbo- 
rescens) ; and it was noticeable that the " pimpler" was 
scarcely represented along the creek, there being 
only a few clumps of it along the lower part. The 
birds in the Canje and the Berbice, I have been assured 
by Dr. YOUNG, frequently contain mucco-mucco fruit and 
leaves; but I am unaware whether this was eaten for 
want of, or in preference to, the " pimpler." 
These birds along the Abary were in very poor condi- 
tion as regards plumage, since it was apparently their 
moulting period. Not a single specimen was shot in 
which the quills of the wings and tails were fully de- 
veloped. It appears that the flesh of these birds is not 
infrequently eaten ; and, from Dr. YOUNG'S observations, 
it seems that if the viscera be removed from the body as 
soon as the bird is killed, the rank odour is eliminated 
from the flesh. 
Late in the afternoon Tiger Island was reached. Here 
there is a commodious building, thatched and partly 
open-sided, but floored — something between a benab and 
