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