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They subsist entirely on fish, turtle, and manatee. Several species of trogons are peculiar to this submerged region. The curious black umbrella-bird is entirely confined to it, as is also the little bristle-tailed manakin. Several monkeys visit it during the wet season, for the sake of its peculiar fruits; and here the scarlet-faced urikari has its home.
"What then?" I stood with a tanager in one hand, a lovely manakin in the other, thinking. "They couldn't be crows," I said, "because " "Because what?" "I don't know, uncle." "No, of course you do not, my boy, for crows they really are." "What! birds of paradise with their lovely buff plumes, uncle?"
Lastly, in several species of a sub-genus of Pipra or Manakin, the males, as described by Mr. Sclater, have their SECONDARY wing-feathers modified in a still more remarkable manner. Even the bones of the wing, which support these singular feathers in the male, are said by Mr. Fraser to be much thickened.
When I encounter one of these people some fine day in a hotel, I act like the birds, who see a manakin in a field. This woman, however, appeared so singular that she did not displease me. Madame Lecacheur, hostile by instinct to everything that was not rustic, felt in her narrow soul a kind of hatred for the ecstatic extravagances of the old girl.
"Poor things!" said Helen, with cold kindness. "It is shameful!" said George, in a tone of righteous anger. "Such creatures have no right to existence. The horrid manakin!" "But, George!" said Helen, in expostulation, "the poor wretch can't help his deformity." "No; but what right had he to marry and perpetuate such odious misery!" "You are too hasty: the young woman is his niece."
Whenever we asked Kallolo to try and catch us some more pets, he invariably replied, "Wait till I can make my blowpipe and some poison, and then I will bring you as many creatures as you may wish for. Ah, the blowpipe is a wonderful instrument; it will serve to kill anything, from a big tapir or a fierce jaguar or puma, down to the smallest manakin or humming-bird."
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