. 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 . treak on each side of itshead. Both had little downy white puffsaround their vents [Cldorostilhon ataJa).A little later I shot a large sparrow, quite like our white-crownedsparrow. Its head w\as handsomely marked witli black and gray,and it had a chestnut collar at the back of its neck {Zonotrichla2^ileata). In a calabash-tree near here I shot a species of honey-creeper {Coereha uropygicdls). It was slate-brown above,
. 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 . treak on each side of itshead. Both had little downy white puffsaround their vents [Cldorostilhon ataJa).A little later I shot a large sparrow, quite like our white-crownedsparrow. Its head w\as handsomely marked witli black and gray,and it had a chestnut collar at the back of its neck {Zonotrichla2^ileata). In a calabash-tree near here I shot a species of honey-creeper {Coereha uropygicdls). It was slate-brown above, its breastand rump yellow, its head and throat slate-black, with a whitestripe above each eye. There was a fleshy excrescence at its gape,which was pinkish red when the bird was fresh, but which fadedrapidly. Its tongue had a peculiar brushy tip. We went on as far as a convent and an orphan asylum, where oneof the nuns, a negress, gave us a drink of water. We then turnedback, and reached the ship about nine. The roads near the conventwere excellent, and had on either side a hedge of a species of cactuswhich grew up like tall posts to ten, fifteen, and even twenty feet in. CHLOROSTILBON SPLENDIDUS. (After Elliot.) 24 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. height. We found other kinds gi-owing about; one esj^ecially trou-blesome resembled our prickly pear, but had very long appeared to have barbs on them, for when they entered theflesh they had to be picked to pieces before they could be extracted.
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