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species, the upper part of the body being of a glossy 
coppery hue dashed with green and purple. The fore- 
head, chin, breast, wings and half the tail are black and 
the rest of the body a pinkish white. The head is 
furnished with a long narrow crest, and the wings are 
furnished with a powerful spine. The legs are long and 
red or bluish-red and furnished with four toes, of which 
the hindmost is rudimentary and not applied to the 
ground. 
Along this part of the creek, the avifauna differed 
considerably from that of the lower reaches. The 
boatbills, quaaks, gauldings, and ducks were not met 
with ; though pigeons were as plentiful as before. 
Various species of kingfishers, woodpeckers, jacamars, 
manakins, tyrant-shrikes, parrots and small macaws 
were plentiful — the latter in immense sets, but shy and 
difficult to obtain. The small macaws (Ara macuvuana 
or j^Eta parrot, and Ara hahni) crossed the creek 
morning and evening in almost continuous flights, but 
high up and generally out of range. The blue crane, 
and the diver or ducklar (Plotus anhinga) at times 
travelled along the creek, but well ahead of the boat ; 
and the bush curri-curri (Harpiprion cayennensis) rose 
at intervals from the bushes. A " Little Ducklar'' or 
<; Frog-footed Duck" (Heliornis fulica), dark brown 
above and grey below, with streaks of white on the 
head and neck, with a sharp and narrow bill, and with a 
web divided up around the toes, was often seen skim- 
ming along the surface of the water, which its wings 
a nd feet often just slightly splashed, but more fre- 
quently they were but just seen before they disappeared 
below the water. 
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