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Our search for a wilderness

Chapter 5: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
By Blair Niles
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Two ornithological expeditions recount field research in northern South America, tracing voyages through mangrove caños, a pitch lake, riverine and mountain fringes, jungle camps, gold-mine settlements, and inland savannas. The narrative blends travel description with natural-history observation and practical accounts of trapping, photographing, and transporting live birds and other specimens for study. Photographs and drawings illustrate species, habitats, and local scenes, and appended lists provide scientific and vernacular bird names plus identified insects. Encounters with local guides and laborers accompany detailed notes on avian behavior, nests, and the variety of ecosystems explored.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

FIG. PAGE
In the South American Wilderness. Frontispiece
1. Map of our Trip through the Mangrove Wilderness 2
2. Our Sloop entering the Mangroves 5
3. Scarlet Ibises in Flight 7
4. Young Mangrove Plants 11
5. The Crucifix in the Catfish 13
6. Parrot Puff-fish 15
7. Four-eyed Fish 16
8. Our Floating Home at La Ceiba 18
9. Exploring the Caños in a Dug-out 21
10. White Orchids 23
11. Sun-bittern 25
12. Solution of the Mangrove Mystery—an Anaconda 27
13. Hoatzins in the Bamboos on the Guarapiche 28
14. First Glimpse of the Venezuela Mountains 31
15. Colony of 150 Cassiques’ Nests in One Tree 33
16. Nest and Eggs of Yellow-backed Cassique 34
17. Venezuelan Tree Porcupine 36
18. Wild Chachalaca near a Guanoco Hut 38
19. Scorpion and its Young taken from Milady’s Shoe 39
20. Yellow Woodpecker 41
21. Owl Butterfly on Cocoa Bark 42
22. Lizard Alert on Trunk of Tree 44
23. The Same Lizard a Moment Later, Obliterated by Change of Position 45
24. Nest and Eggs of Great Blue Tinamou 47
25. Woodhewer clinging to the Trunk of a Tree 50
26. Streaked Flycatcher 51
27. The Jungle Railroad 56
28. Spider Lilies near Pitch Lake 57
29. La Brea—The Lake of Pitch 59
30. The fatal “Mother of the Lake” 61
31. White-headed Chimachima Hawk and Eta Palm 62
32. Amazon Parrot Roost, Pitch Lake 63
33. The Home of the Amazon Parrot in the Middle of Pitch Lake 64
34. Amazon Parrot at Entrance of Nest. Fifteen feet away 65
35. Amazon Parrot at Entrance of Nest. Ten feet away 65
36. Amazon Parrot about to take Flight 66
37. Eggs and Young of Amazon Parrot in the Nest 67
38. Fish from the Pools in Pitch Lake. Aequidens sp. 69
39. Fish from the Pools in Pitch Lake. Hoplias malabaricus 69
40. Our Sloop at Guanoco 72
41. Venezuelan Soldiers on the “Pontón” Guard Ship 76
42. Captain Truxillo paddling us up the Guarapiche past Caño Colorado 78
43. Sunset in the Mangrove Wilderness 80
44. The Silent Savages 81
45. Guarauno Indians coming to trade at Caño Colorado 83
46. Guarauno Squaws and Child with Monkey 85
47. Pitch Lake, showing freshly dug pit filled with water; an older pit filled with soft pitch, both surrounded by the hard surface pitch 88
48. Digging out the Black, Waxlike Pitch 90
49. Loading Pitch on the Hand Cars 93
50. Mangrove Wilderness from the High Land at Guanoco 95
51. Inhabitants of Guanoco assembled for a Dance 97
52. A Palm-sheath Rocking Toy 100
53. Sheath in Fig. 52, covering the Flower of a Palm 102
54. Priestless Chapel at Guanoco 105
55. Guarauno Indian Papoose 107
56. Map of our Three Expeditions into British Guiana 110
57. Street in Georgetown 113
58. Kiskadee Tyrant Flycatcher 114
59. Coolie Woman and Negress 117
60. The Georgetown Sea-wall 119
61. Toad 123
62. Arc-light 123
63. Victoria Regia in the Botanical Gardens 124
64. Lotus in Blossom 126
65. Taliput Palm in Blossom 128
66. Canal of the Crocodiles 130
67. Young Elania Flycatchers 132
68. Typical Indian House at Morawhanna 136
69. Three-year Olds at Home in their Wood-skin 138
70. Mount Everard 140
71. Sir Everard im Thurn’s House at Morawhanna 143
72. Palm Tanager 147
73. Frederick, the Carib Indian Boy 152
74. Our Tent-boat on the Barama River 159
75. Indian Boys in Dug-out 162
76. Crossing a Stream on the Hoorie Jungle Road 166
77. The Wilderness Trail 168
78. Engine House and Flume of Hoorie Gold Mine 172
79. The “Little Giant” at Work 175
80. Carib Hunter and His Children at Hoorie 178
81. Three Generations of Carib Indians 180
82. Mr. Wilshire and Crandall with Bushmaster 182
83. The Terrible Bushmaster 183
84. Panning Gold 186
85. Whip Scorpion or Pedipalp Spider 190
86. A Jungle Blossom 193
87. The Drowned Forest 199
88. Nests of Red-backed Cassiques 204
89. Barama River from Farnum’s House 216
90. Scene on the Barrabarra 219
91. Wake of a Manatee swimming up River 221
92. Manatee browsing close to the Bank 222
93. Manatee taking in Air and about to dive 224
94. A Vista of the Biara 226
95. Father Gillett and his Indian Boys 228
96. Tropical Luxuriance 230
97. Capybara on the Bank of a Stream 232
98. South American Thatched House and Nests of Green Cassiques 236
99. Miles of Lilies 239
100. The Road to Suddie 243
101. Gray-breasted Martins nesting on the Steamer 245
102. Coolies and their Wives fishing on the Essequibo 247
103. Falls at Lower Camaria 249
104. A Butterfly Mimicking an Orchid 251
105. Fresh-water Flying Fish 252
106. Salt-water Flying Fish 253
107. Cuyuni River 254
108. A Herd of Eight Capybaras, Six Adult and Two Young 255
109. Great Anteater 257
110. A Tacuba on the Cuyuni 259
111. Rapids on the Cuyuni 260
112. Rushing the Boat into the Rapids 261
113. Warping the Boat Through the Lower Whirlpools 262
114. A Rest midway up the Rapids 264
115. The Final Struggle up to Smooth Water 266
116. Shooting the Rapids at Full Speed 270
117. A Wilderness Passion Flower—Simitú 272
118. Our Camp on the Aremu River 274
119. Poling under Tacubas on the Little Aremu 276
120. Tree-ferns on the Little Aremu 278
121. A Sloth in Action 280
122. A Sloth Asleep 281
123. Where only Otters and Fish can pass 283
124. Aremu Gold Mine, showing Bungalow and Mine Shaft 286
125. Descending the Shaft 289
126. Walking Stick Insect 290
127. Scorpion and Caterpillar after their Battle 292
128. Milady and the Giant Mora Tree 296
129. Aërial Roots of Bush-rope 299
130. Tamandua 306
131. Agouti 312
132. Nest and Eggs of White-throated Robin 323
133. Section of Paddle-wood Tree 325
134. Phonetic Caterpillars 329
135. First Phase of Curassow Strutting, a Slow Walk with Raised Tail. Rear View. 333
136. The Same. Side View. 333
137. Second Phase of Curassow Strutting 335
138. Third Phase of Curassow Strutting 337
139. Golden-crowned Manakin lifted from Nest 343
140. Young Dusky Parrots 344
141. Early Morning in the Wilderness 346
142. Indian Hunter bringing in a Peccary 347
143. American Egret on the Abary River Savanna 352
144. Nest and Young of Jabiru 354
145. Gray-necked Tree-ducks rising from the Savanna 356
146. Our Bungalow on Abary Island 358
147. Map of Abary Island 361
148. Abary River, showing High Growth on West Bank 362
149. Spider Lily near Abary Island 363
150. Nest of a Hoatzin in the Mucka-mucka on which these Birds feed 366
151. The Author Photographing Hoatzins 367
152. (A) Female Hoatzin flushed from her nest; the Male Bird approaching 369
153. (B) Female Hoatzin in the same Position, the Male having flown nearer 370
154. (C) Male Hoatzin alarmed and about to take Flight 372
155. (D) Female Hoatzin crouching to avoid Observation 373
156. (E) Female Hoatzin taking flight, with wings fully spread; a second pair of birds leaving their nest in the background 375
157. Flock of Eleven Hoatzins 377
158. Crocodiles on a South American River Bank 380
159. Lagoon between Abary Island and River 382
160. Young Spur-winged Jacana 384