Almost at every turn one of them might be seen, sometimes standing as if studying your method of approach.

I sent out five men to go shooting in the northwesterly direction from the camp, and after a day and a half they returned with ten deer.

At one time we had fifteen hanging in the kitchen.
One morning our best marksman, a Mexican named Figueroa, brought in three specimens of that superb bird, _campephilus imperialis_, the largest woodpecker in the world.

This splendid member of the feathered tribe is two feet long; its plumage is white and black, and the male is ornamented with a gorgeous scarlet crest, which seemed especially brilliant against the winter snow.

The birds go in pairs and are not very shy, but are difficult to kill and have to be shot with rifle.