quandu

Updated: May 7, 2025

They had discovered a third pool containing plenty of turtles. Lino rejoined us at the same time, having missed the peccary, but in compensation shot a Quandu, or porcupine. The mulatto boy had caught alive in the pool a most charming little water-fowl, a species of grebe.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons