. A flying trip to the tropics. A record of an ornithological visit to the United States of Colombia, South America and to the island of Curaçao, West Indies, in the year 1892 . ter offer-ing a beautiful sight as they sailed lightlyover the waves, resplendent with variousshades of violet, purple, and pink. Sunday night the mnd freshened, andall day Monday we pitched through a headsea, the wind being from the all felt worse than ever. I thoughtthe sea very rough, as the waves repeat-edly washed over the decks. A flying-fishcame on board and was caught. I exam-ined it as closely as
. A flying trip to the tropics. A record of an ornithological visit to the United States of Colombia, South America and to the island of Curaçao, West Indies, in the year 1892 . ter offer-ing a beautiful sight as they sailed lightlyover the waves, resplendent with variousshades of violet, purple, and pink. Sunday night the mnd freshened, andall day Monday we pitched through a headsea, the wind being from the all felt worse than ever. I thoughtthe sea very rough, as the waves repeat-edly washed over the decks. A flying-fishcame on board and was caught. I exam-ined it as closely as I could. It was asmall one, about six inches long, a deepblue color above and silvery white below,a splendid example of protective colora-tion, as its colors harmonized with thedeep blue of the water and snowy whiteof the foam. Later in the day I saw abird about the size of a pigeon, blackabove and white below, and more stockythan a tern. It flew close to the surfaceof the waves. It was not a tern, but flewmuch like a gull, not with the rapid wing-beats of a murre, and was j^robably ashearwater. The wind continued on Tuesday, butnot so fresh as on the day before, and, to.
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