In the Wilds of South America

From a painting by Louis Agassiz Fuertes.
The cock-of-the-rock at home.
IN THE WILDS OF SOUTH AMERICA
SIX YEARS OF EXPLORATION IN COLOMBIA, VENEZUELA, BRITISH GUIANA, PERU, BOLIVIA, ARGENTINA, PARAGUAY, AND BRAZIL
BY LEO E. MILLER
OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
WITH OVER 70 ILLUSTRATIONS AND A MAP
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1919
Copyright, 1917, 1918, by CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
Published October, 1918
TO MY WIFE L. E. M.
I have frequently wondered how many of the large number of people who visit natural-history museums have any conception of the appearance and actions, in their wilderness homes, of the creatures they see, and of the experiences of the field-naturalists who visit the little-known places of the earth in search of them.