. Errances en Amérique du Sud, au nord-ouest des Etats-Unis et des Antilles dans les années 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 : avec des instructions originales pour la conservation parfaite des oiseaux, etc. Pour les armoires d'histoire naturelle. D est dit ressembler à du boeuf. Jacamars.—l'espèce ici décrite est le Grand Jacamar—{.Tacamerops grandis). Le mode d'alimentation utilisé par cet oiseau, et décrit par C. Kingsley dans ^^ dernier, corrobore exactement Watertonsaccount. Il avait été surpris de voir un pastat de mouche de chauve-souris à mi-journée, l'ombre de la forêt tropicale étant si profonde et sombre. Et il y en a un autre ! Non ;

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. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history . d is said to resemble beef. Jacamars.—The species here described is the Great Jacamar—{.Tacamerops grandis). The mode of feeding employed by this bird, and describedby C. Kingsley in ^^ Last, exactly corroborates Watertonsaccount. He had been startled by seeing a bat fly pastat mid-day, the shade of the tropical forest being so deep anddark. And there is another ! No ; as it turns, a blaze ofmetallic azm*e off the upper side of the wings proves this oneto be no bat, but a morpho, a moth as big as a bat. Andwhat was that second large flash of golden green, whichdashed at the moths, and back to yonder branch not ten feetoff? A Jacamar—kingfisher, as they miscall her here, sittingfearless of man, with the moth in her long beak. Her throat EXPLANATORY INDEX. 429 is snowy white, her under parts a rich brown. Her breastand all her upper plumage and long tail, glitter with goldengreen. There is light enough it seems, in the forest.The morpho, by the way, is a butterfly, and not a moth.. GREAT JACAMAK. Jaguar [Leojoardus onca).—Waterton did not see much ofthe jaguars (which he sometimes calls tigers), and certainlywas not afraid of them. Mr. Brown gives the followingaccount of the mode in which the jaguar is successfullyhunted :—- On returning to the head of the New River for provisions, we were followed for many miles by a Tiger, for on goingback we saw its huge tracks in the swampy places on ourpath. * With good hunting-dogs fine Jaguar and Puma huntingmight be obtained on the banks of this river, where withoutdoubt they are exceedingly numerous. Many of the Indian hunting-dogs, trained for deer ortapir, will hunt Tigers. When on the track of either of thoseanimals, should they come across the scent of a Tiger, their 430 EXPLANATORY INDEX.

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