These birds are remarkable for the power and strength of their wings.

Few birds have so many advantages." My boys occupied themselves in binding their captive and dressing his wound; while I sought some of the canes which had done flowering, to cut off the hard ends, to point my arrows.

These are used by the savages of the Antilles.

I then selected the highest canes I could meet with, to assist me in measuring, by a geometrical process, the height of the tree.

Ernest took the canes, I had the wounded flamingo, and Fritz carried his own game.