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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
Giant Solitary Ants, three on stem. 
Large Brown Spider in web. 
Ictineumon-Fly with yellow, black-spotted wings. 
Giant Lineated Woodpecker (Coephleus lineatus) flying 
over in the direction of the bird which had been ham¬ 
mering. 
Red Howling Monkeys (Alouatta) heard to the southward. 
Jungle Pigeons heard in a new direction. 
Green Spider devouring green fly. 
Small Brown Ants, six on one leaf. 
Large Chestnut Bee (Xylocopa) half buried in a yellow 
allamanda blossom. 
Minute Gnat flying close to my eye. 
Spot-Winged Antcreeper (Sclateria leucostigma ) two in vine 
near trail. 
Carrion Flies and Ants on bird dropping. 
Small Green Caterpillar looping along edge of leaf. 
Yellow-Headed Vulture (Cathartes urubitinga ) swooping 
low, close over the trees. 
Brown Coccids, many on a branch, attended by ants. 
Small Green Buprestid Beetle. 
Red-Throated Caracara (Ibycter americanus) calling with 
loud raucous screams upon discovering me. 
Cinereous Antbird ( Thamnomanes glaucus) calling just out 
of sight in the jungle, also annoyed by my presence. 
Quadrille Bird, a second individual appearing for a moment. 
Ithomiid Butterflies, two alighting on leaves. 
Green Wood Roach ( Panchloridae ) on g'-een leaf. 
Brown Silk Cocoon with chrysalid moving about inside. 
Spiders, two fighting on small web. 
Large Antbird, unidentified, flying swiftly across trail. 
Callistes. Chloroptianes and Bright Colored Tanagers, 
eight in tall trees. 
Large Red Ant on ground. 
Small Black and White Butterfly ( Erycinid ) under leaf. 
Small Black Flies, three waving their wings and whirling 
about on leaf. 
Long-Horned Grasshopper mimicking daddy-long-legs (cap¬ 
tured). 
Black Chalcid Wasp attacking pink caterpillar. 
Guiana Wood Nymph Hummingbird ( Tlialurania ) following 
me for some distance. 
Short-Tailed Swift ( Chaetura ) flying over. 
Minute Gnats, three on a small flower. 
Azteca Ants around suspended nest. 
Metallic Jumping Spider with fly on leaf. 
Termites or White Ants making tunnel near their nest on 
tree. 
Black-Fronted Antbird (Myrmoderas ferruginea ) giving its 
teacher-teacher-teacher call near the trail. 
White-Headed Tayra (Tayra barbara) one of these giant 
weasels rushing down out of a tree and off through the 
underbrush with a great riot of noise. 
Minute, Red-Spotted Spider hanging from strand of silk. 
Hump-Backed Flies (Hylomyzidae) , two on leaf mating. 
Mottled Spider on Huge Web (Argiope) , with two blossoms, 
but no living prey entangled. 
Green-Winged Macaws (Ara chloroptera) , calling to the 
north, and later appearing, flying high overhead. 
Brown Loop Worm with front part of body sticking out from 
stem like a dead twig. 
Grey Jumping Spiders ( Attidac ) motionless on plant. 
Red Ant on ground. 
Hump-Backed Fly. 
Tiny White Moth flying close to ground. 
Large Grey Robber Fly resting on twig. 
Large Species Hump-Backed Flies, three on one leaf. 
Turquoise-Backed Weevil under leaf. 
Mealy Amazon Parrots (Amazona farinosa) two flying from 
tree with loud screams. 
Pygmy Antbird ( Myrmotherula pygmea ) heard. 
Woodpecker hammering loudly ahead. 
Small Reddish Moth on leaf. 
Small Hump-Backed Fly on leaf. 
Olive-Backed Ovenbiri) ( Automolus infuscatus ) two feeding 
on small tree. 
Woodpeckers, two small ones, too high for identification. 
White-Breasted Antwren (Rhamphocaenus albiventris) one 
seen and others heard; this one hanging upside down 
picking at a leaf. 
Spot-Winged Antbird seen near trail. 
Antbirds, two, unidentified, with the Spot-wing. 
Smalt. Parrots probably Urochroma. flying overhead. 
Red Howling Monkeys, a second band heard far to the west. 
Green Mantis gesticu’ating on leaf. 
Rrown Robber Fly with undidentified prey. 
Brown, Yellow-Lined Grasshopper, a tree-top species, on 
leaf. 
Macaws heard (probab’y the same birds). 
Membracids shaped like small nuts, eight attended by four 
ants. 
Coccids attended by minute black ants. 
Membracid with pillar-shaped thorax (collected). 
Small Hump-Backed Fly. 
High-Arched Membracid on same plant, attended by ant. 
Purple-Breasted Cotinga ( Cotinga cotinga) heard in dis¬ 
tance. 
Small Inch-Worm on my sleeve. 
Small Brown Wood-Roaches, two running along trail. 
Crowd of Termites rushing out of their nest accidently 
broken open. 
Metallic Carrion Fly on leaf. 
Lace-Winged Fly ( Chrysopidae ) resting under leaf. 
Metallic Coppery Scarab Beetle resting on leaf. 
Dancing-Wing Flies (Trypetidae), gyrating on a leaf. 
Dumb-Bell-Shaped. Long-Legged Flies flying and on leaf, 
one elaborately courting the other. 
Small Metallic Green Fly (.Volucella) on flower. 
Maggots ( Diptera) thirty or more around a bit of carrion. 
Small Black and White Butterflies (Pierids, although an 
exact copy of Heliconids —genus Dismorphia). 
Small Brown Dragonfly on tip of leaf. 
Small Birds, two in tree, not identified. 
Yellow-Bellied Calliste Tanagers ( Tangara mexicana ) 
three in tree. 
Large Hump-Backed Fly. 
Yellow-Winged Deer Fly buzzing about my face. 
Green Spider on green leaf. 
Small Metallic Fly. 
Small Brown Grasshopper. 
Hairy Black Robber Fly. 
Termites, small colony of these with snapping jaws. 
Muscid Fly on leaf. 
Dark Saddle Membracids with four ant attendants. 
Golden Metallic Bee. 
Four Black Trigonid Bees. 
Two Ithomiid Butterflies. 
White Flow'er-Like Spider. 
Two Volucella Flies. 
Slender Black Ant. 
Dolichopodid Fly. 
All on three small blossoms. 
Sulphur-and-Wiiite-Breasted Toucans, a pair calling. 
Guiana Motmots calling in their muffled tones ahead. 
Small Copper Beetle dropping to the earth at a touch. 
Minute White Moth. 
Brown, Long-Legged Ctenid Spider. 
White-Antennaed, Braconid Wasp. 
Small Brown Ants, three carrying a bit of food. 
White-Crowned Manakin (Pipra leucocilla), a male flew 
past. 
Yellow and Black Cercopid Bug ( Tomaspis ruber). 
Minute Metallic Fly. 
Brown and Red Caterpillar. 
Red-Rimmed Black Hemipteron on leaf. 
Giant- Blue, Tarantula-Kii.ling Wasp. 
Three White Crowned Manakins, two males and a female. 
Dusky Parrots ( Pionus fuscus) , three calling from tree over¬ 
head. 
Woodpeckers hammering, one west, a second south. 
White-Throated Thrush (Turdus phaeopygus), parent and 
nestling hardly able to fly, pursued them but could not 
capture the young one. 
Large Rhinoceros Beetle flying past. 
Macaws heard, perhaps the same pair seen earlier. 
Black-Throated Trogon ( Trogonurus curucui) heard and 
seen. 
Yellow-Throated Caracara ( Ibycter ater ), flying out of low 
tree screaming loudly. 
Yellow-Headed Vultures, two soaring past. 
Small Swift, unidentified. 
Small Gold-Fronted Hummingbird unidentified. 
Large Jungle Damsel-Fly ( Mecistogaster ) fluttering slowly 
over the trail. 
Small Hump-Backed Flies, two on leaves. 
Metallic Jumping Spider with small insect. 
Saddle Membracids, eight adults and young, attended by 
three ants. 
Furry Black Caterpillar eating leaf. 
Small Robber Flies, two mating. 
Tiny Red Caterpillar under rolled leaf. 
Walking Stick Insect ( Phasmid ) hanging by four legs from 
a leaf, the front pair stretched out a’ong the antennae. 
Agouti (Dasyprocta aguti flavescens ) rushing away from a 
wi’d p'um tree, grunting loudly. 
Small White Pierid Butterfly on flower. 
Red Howling Monkeys heard, probably the same as the last 
band. 
Cloud of Gnats in mid air. 
White-Fronted Antbirds ( Pithys albifrons ) three chirping 
close to trail, a’l seen. 
Antbird. another species seen only for a moment. 
Army Ants (Eciton burchelli), a small fan of these ants, ac¬ 
counting for the presence of the antbirds. 
Three Wood-Roaches scurried out from among dead leaves. 
Two Daddy-Long-Legs hiding among the same leaves. 
Large Brown Millipede ( Polydesmid) crawling on ground. 
Small Flies, six hovering over a dead spider. 
Two More Wood Roaches. 
Harlequin Jungle Cricket ( Rhipipteryx ) flew ahead of me. 
