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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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Fig. 32. Amazon Parrot Roost, Pitch Lake. bubbles, short grass, clumps of fern and sedge, with occasionalisolated palms. Flowers of many kinds and colors springfrom the heart of the raw pilch itself. Jacanas23 rise beforeus with loud erics and Hashing wings of gold. One maywalk over the lake at will, morning and evening, but in theheat of midday, in many places, ones shoes sink quicklyunless one keeps constantly on die move. White is not a very common color in nature, and vet here,in striking contrast with the inky blackness of the pitch, mostof the birds show large patches of this color. In the (lis- 64 OUR SEARCH FOR A WILDERNESS. tance are always to be seen Snowy Egrets 33 and immatureBlue Herons 34 — spots of purest white, while near at hand,absurdly tame, a big hawk forever soars slowly about or
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Fig. 33. The Home of tfie Amazon Parrot in the Middle of Pitch Lake. perches on some great frond of a tall palm. It is a White-headed Chimachima Hawk 50 with plumage of white, save forback, wings, and tail. The two most abundant small birds are chiefly white in THE LAKE OF PITCH. 65 color. Both are Flycatchers, one with white head and neck— White-headed Marsh Flycatcher 98 — perching in the reedsand making fierce sallies after passing insects, while evenmore beautiful and conspicuous are the little terrestrialFlycatchers — White-shouldered Ground Flycatchers 97 or Cotton Birds — which scurry along the ground over

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