INDEX
Reading edition
Abary, 99 agouti, 189 allamandas, 85, 182 Amazon, 240 anaquas, 115 anchor, observation from, 22, 23 anis, 47, 100, 118 antbirds, 249 ants, 183, 256, 258; immunity from killing, 231; silvery gray, 223; "white," 233 army ants, behavior in rain, 228, 229; castes, 217; eyes, 219; leap, 212, 213, 223; methods of transportation, 215, 229; moving of nest, 235, 236; tube, 227; trail makers, 221, 222; virility, 234; weight lifted, 216 Barbados, 59-65 Bartica, 141 Basseterre, 45 bat, vampire, 104, 152 batrachian, 212 beach, 62, 63, 70, 74, 75 Beckett, Mr., 124 beena, 274 beetles, 211, 227, 234, 256, 277; mimicry, 257; tiger, 63 bell bird, 159 Berbice, 102, 103, 124 bête rouge, 243, 255 blackbirds, 98, 99 blackfish, 12 bougainvillea, 85 British Guiana, mission to, 67; coast lands, 92-102 bunduri pimpler, 125 bunyahs, yellow-backed, 100 bushmaster, noosing, 188-195; protective coloration, 191, 192; fangs, 194; size, 195 butterflies, on St. Thomas, 38; on St. Kitts, 48; migration of sulphur, 158 caciques, 100 cadouries, 146 callistes, 201, 249 canella do matto, 241 cashew, French, 197-200 caterpillars, aquatic, 128 catfish, armored, 112 cecropia, 182 centipedes, 152 cetaceans, 11 chachalacas, 157 churacas, 248 coal-carriers, St. Lucia, 55 convolvulus, 182 coolie, trial, 80-84; marriage, 163-176 cotton-birds, 88 crabs, 16; land, 62 cricket, tree, 281 crows, carrion, 88 cuckoos, 212; black, 88 Cuyuni, 144 dacnis, 201 daddy-long-legs, 215, 227 dance, Hindu, 170 débris, jungle, 253 deer, 280 dikes, 97 dogs, wild hunting, 273 dolphins, 44, 45 doves, ground, 48 ducks, Muscovy, 88 eclipse, in Barbados, 61 egrets, 88 elater, 277 Essequibo, 144, 148 falcons, laughing, 88 fireflies, cluster, 210 fish, angel, 50, 56; four-eyed, 128; frog, 18; photographing of flying, 23; pipe, 18 flower, passion, 182 flycatchers, 249; fork-tailed, 122, 159; golden-crowned crested, 150; streaked, 196 frangipani, 85 frog, 211, 212, 240, 273; call, 240 gannets, 40 grass, bamboo, 183 grasshopper, 128, 212 grass-quits, 157 grass, razor, 179, 184 guide, for cutting trail, 187, 188 hanaquas, 119 hawks, 99 heliconias, 202; color, 204; Reds, 205; sleeping glade, 205, 206; sleeping position, 205; Yellows, 205 herons, Guiana green, 127; tri-colored, 88 hoatzins, 118, 119; call, 130; food of young, 126; home life, 123-139; nest, 126, 129; nestlings, 131; odor, 129; photographing young, 102, 103 honey creepers, 47, 252; turquoise, 201 hummingbirds, 38, 113, 197, 198, 199, 200 ibis, scarlet, 122 jackal, crab, 282 jaguar, 186 jungle, animals obtained from, 282; trail through, 89; yard of, 255 Kaburi trail, 148 Kalacoon, 142, 143 kingbirds, 47 kinkajous, 263, 281 kiskadees, 86, 104, 127, 157 kunama, 273; habits, 274 laboratory, wilderness, 141-153 lianas, 246 library, New Amsterdam, 105, 110 lichens, 196 lizards, in Barbados, 60; method of capture, 41-43; surrender of, 203; trail, 202 lucannani, 157 maam, 189 Mafolie, 38 Mahaica, 99 manakins, 249, 252; opal-crowned, 252 Martinique, 27-32, 49-54; market, 49-51 martins, 69, 79, 158 Mazaruni, 144, 148 millipede, 38, 214 mimicry, 257 mites, 259 Monkey Hill, 47 monkeys, 48; howling, 155-156 Mont Pelee, 27-32 moths, 256 mouse, 211 muckamucka, 125 New Amsterdam, 110, 124 nighthawk, call, 267; gathering, 267 noctiluca, 65 nuts, 75 opossum, 73, 74 orioles, black-throated, 88; yellow, nest of, 100 paca, 281 palms, cocoanut, 100 Pará, 241 parrakeets, 250 peas, butterfly, 182 perai, 90 phosphorescence, 20, 65 phosphorescent animals, method of capturing, 20, 21 pigeons, 48 pits, 201; number five, 211 Pomeroon, 89, 90 rain, tropical, 120, 121 rainbow, lunar, 58 roaches, wood, 277 Roosevelt, Colonel, 146-150 Roosevelt, Mrs., 147, 148 sandpiper, 47 sargasso weed, animals associated with, 18; fate of, 19; method of grappling, 13-16; origin, 16 scorpions, 152; pseudo, 259 sea-birds, 11 sea, color of, 24; swimming in, 45, 46 sea-horses, 18 second-growth, 180 seeds, 75 sharks, harmlessness of, 46 shrimps, 18 skimmers, 97 sloth, name of, 264 snails, 259 snake, 285; green, 72; water constrictor, 72 spiders, 259 spine-tail, 119 Station, Zoölogical, 141, 153; Tropical Research, 67 St. Eustatius, 44 St. Kitts, 44-49 St. Lucia, 54-59; coal-carriers, 55 St. Pierre, 30 St. Thomas, 35-44 Suddy, 70 swifts, Palm, 47, 159; collared, 159 tamarind tree, 38 tanagers, 201, 249, 252 tapir, 90 tarantula, 152 termites, 258; flight, 158; immunity from attack, 233 tinamou, 189; eggs, 189 toads, 161, 213 tody-flycatchers, 127 toucans, 250, 251 trail, Convict, 177-210; Pomeroon, 84-91 trees, silk cotton, 100; sentinel, 196; wild cinnamon, 241 trogons, 188 Trois Pitons, 58 tropic-bird, 37 trumpet tree, 182 warracabra tiger, 273 wasp, 63, 83 wharf, Dutch, 71 woodhewers, 249, 251 woodpeckers, 249, 251, 252 worm, inch, 229 wrens, 157, 250 Zoölogical Society, New York, 67