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