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SCREAMERS.
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This singular bird is an inhabitant of the inundated grounds of South America, where the immense rivers overflowing their banks, cover large

Horned Screamer
Horned Screamer

HORNED SCREAMER.

tracts of flat country with sluggish water, which soon becomes choked up with multitudinous forms of rank aquatic vegetation. In the vast swamps and morasses thus formed, which teem with the