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Identifier: birdlore11nati (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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m its fellows and fishing in the numerous small creeks. Here andthere among them are Wood Ibises,^ and at last we discover the bird for whichwe have been searching—the Great Jabiru,^ or Negrocop, as the natives callit. These splendid storks tower high above the herons, and with their jet-black KISKA CATCHER ^Sporophila sp Leistes guianensis Agelaiiis icierocephalus*Herodias cgretta • Mycteria americana^Jabiru mycteria 236 Bird - Lore heads and red neck-pouches are vnsible a long distance away. As our launchpuffs along, Jaganas^ fly up in pairs with loud cackling notes; their dark chocolateand pale yellow colors flashing conspicuously. Tiny Comorants,- in groups offrom four to ten, spatter ahead of us now and then. Snakebirds^ are less numerous,but far from uncommon. One of the most abundant larger birds is the Cream-headed Hawk,* to which small birds pay no attention, as it feeds only on insectsand mollusks. From every bush along the bank, there flv one or more of the small Guiana
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BUNGALOW ON ISLAND IN THE SAVANNA. THE AUTHORS HEADQUARTERS Green Herons,^ leaving their nests, which are built close to the surface of thewater. Much more war\-, and never allowing us to apjjroach closely, arethe beautiful Great Cocoi Herons.^ About eleven oclock, we see in the dis-tance what appear to be great patches of burnt reeds. But, as we draw nearto these, we are astonished to find that they arc phalanxes of Ducks. Nearerand nearer we apjiroach, and at last those nearest us take to flight, passingba( k over the heads of the others. Then hundreds begin to rise at once,until, for fifty yards or so, there is a literal wave of birds rising on eachside of the river, flying upward and backward in two vast unbroken sheets. ^Iarra jacana^Phalacrocorax vigtia Anhinga anhinga* liusdrelltis nigr.cnIliA * Bulorides striata^Ardea cocoi A Day with the Birds on a Guiana Savanna 237 From this mass, giving forth a shrill whistle which soon deepens into a per-fect roar of wings, single lines o

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