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Updated: May 28, 2025
Its loud unmusical call has been syllabised pichu-giapo. Cuculus micropterus. The Indian cuckoo. Hierococcyx varius. The common hawk-cuckoo. Hierococcyx sparverioides. The large hawk-cuckoo. Palæornis schisticeps. The slaty-headed paroquet. This bird is not nearly so common in the Eastern as in the Western Himalayas. Glaucidium brodei. The collared pigmy owlet. Syrnium indrani. The brown wood-owl.
It is a good day when I get my tail fly more than fifteen yards beyond the reel, with any degree of accuracy. My success lies mainly with the tribes of Esox and Micropterus. Among these, I have seldom or never failed during the last thirty-six years, when the water was free of ice; and I have had just as good luck when big-mouthed bass and pickerel were in the "off season," as at any time.
The "steamer-duck" is a feature almost peculiar to the inland Fuegian waters, and has always been a bird of note among sailors, like the "Cape pigeons" and "Mother Carey's chickens." There is another and smaller species, called the "flying steamer," as it is able to mount into the air. It is called by naturalists Micropterus Patachonica. "There they are at last! Heaven have mercy on us!"
Heaven have mercy on us!" Nearly all the larger trees in the Fuegian forests have the heartwood decayed, and are worthless as timber. Out of fifteen cut down by Captain King's surveying party, near Port Famine, more than half proved to be rotten at the heart. The Micropterus brachypterus of Quoy and Guimard.
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