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The colour varies from the velvety white outer petals through every shade of rose to the deepest crimson, and fading again to a creamy yellowish tint in the heart of the flower. The natives call it the forno do piosoca, or oven of the jacana the leaves being like that of the baking-pans, or ovens, on which the mandioca meal is roasted.
The natives call it the furno do Piosoca, or oven of the Jacana, the shape of the leaves being like that of the ovens on which Mandioca meal is roasted. This eagle is considered a bird of ill omen by the Indians: it often perches on the tops of trees in the neighbourhood of their huts, and is then said to bring a warning of death to some member of the household.
We heard the shrill and noisy notes of its fellows in the trees near us. "Ah, that is a piosoca!" said Duppo, "and that leaf is its oven;" and so it was in shape like the pans in which the natives roast their mandioca meal. Ellen had, in the meantime, been examining one of the beautiful flowers which the boatmen picked for her.
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