The gallitos, or cock-of-the-rocks, sold at Pararuma in pretty cages woven from palm leaves, are far rarer on the Orinoco banks and in all northern and western tropical America than in French Guiana. They have been spotted only here in the Raudales. This bird chooses its nest in hollows in the granite rocks of the cataracts. We saw it a few times in the middle of the foaming river, calling its females and fighting like our cocks while folding back the mobile double crest on top of its head.