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Title: Our search for a wilderness; an account of two ornithological expeditions to Venezuela and to British Guiana
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Niles, Blair Beebe, William, 1877-1962
Subjects: Natural history Birds
Publisher: New York, H. Holt and company

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In many of these tropical growths the new or first leaf-shoots are pale or brilliant red, this holding good in the caseof the giant moras, several trees with locust-like foliage, andeven the flat, leaf-vines, Monstera or shingle plants, crawlingup the trunks. One small tree with entire leaves and coveredwith sweet-scented tassel-shaped flowers, had at least halfits foliage of a pale yellow-green. This is the spring of thisregion in so far as such a region of never ending warmth andmoisture may be said to have a spring. On every handflower-, were in abundance. All were unknown to us, butmost were of large size and varied odor and color. All thetales of the rarity of flowers in the tropics had not fitted inwith our experiences. 280 OUR SEARCH FOR A WILDERNESS. In the course of three bends of the river, during somefifteen minutes observation, we observed the following inmasses of sufficient size to catch the eye far off and add adecided color tone to the spot where they grew: purple pea-
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Fig. 121. A Sloth in Action. blooms in wisteria-like bunches; falling-star white flowers;pink two-petalled ground (lowers in dense clumps; spiderlilies, the large kind; red passion flowers; white tubularblooms; five-parted purple star-shaped flowers; wild cotton,in enormous masses of bloom, resembling clematis and as WATER TRAIL FROM GEORGETOWN TO AREMU. 281 fragrant; long thin racemes of very fragrant, dull greenishwhite flowers; brush-like purple blooms, white at the base,growing sessile on the trunks, with an edible fruit, whichthe blacks call Waika. This list is exclusive of all the many inconspicuous flowersand all orchids, which were seldom out of sight. Its value

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