414 Walter Goodfellow—Some Reminiscences of a Collector


them from again nesting early this winter. To date I have reared five

youngsters from two nests.


As I observed previously every youngster so far reared shows the

same fascination when a canary breaks into song.


The Star is a consistent bather, never missing its morning plunge.

It is also fond of cuttlefish and green-seeded grasses.


I would be interested to hear the opinion of other aviculturists,

but I am convinced that soft food is necessary to breed and rear this

species.



SOME REMINISCENCES OF A COLLECTOR


By Walter Goodfellow

(Continued from page 346.)


On my return from Ecuador I found everyone too engrossed in

the War for me to think of any further collecting for the time being,

so after a short rest I offered my services to the War Office,- but did

not receive much encouragement. As time went on and I heard no

more about it, I accepted a post offered to me in Bolivia through

a friend in the Foreign Office. Another man (a Canadian) had been

selected to go with me, and when we met I found he had been a table

companion on my journey home from South America. He was a mining

engineer who had thrown up a good post in Colombia, and had come

home to join up, and like me had offered his services and heard no more

about it. Now Bolivia, with the exception of two of the Guianas and

Paraguay, was the only country in South America I had not visited,

therefore I jumped at the offer. Perhaps I ought not to include what

I am about to write under the heading of this article, as I was not

then a collector in the true sense of the word.


The usual way of entry into the country is via one of the Peruvian

or Chilian ports on the Pacific coast, but we had been requested to

go by a much less-known route through Buenos Aires, the Plate Biver,

Paraguay, and part of Western Brazil to Puerto Suarez, a small outlet

Bolivia owns on the upper waters of the Bio Paraguay. Bolivia is



