. 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 . it reaches a good height. It has a hundred uses; many uten-sils and vessels are made of the joints, and it is one of the mostuniversal building and fencing materials. The smaller ones makegood fishing-poles. At the supper-table we met the first ill-mannered person whomwe had thus far encountered in Colombia, and I am ashamed to haveto admit that he was an American drummer. We spent another wakeful night tormented by th
. 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 . it reaches a good height. It has a hundred uses; many uten-sils and vessels are made of the joints, and it is one of the mostuniversal building and fencing materials. The smaller ones makegood fishing-poles. At the supper-table we met the first ill-mannered person whomwe had thus far encountered in Colombia, and I am ashamed to haveto admit that he was an American drummer. We spent another wakeful night tormented by the fleas. It wasclear and warm in the morning, but close cloudy in the afternoon. Sunday, July 10,1892. Ahce,Cabell, and myself went out againearly this morning to the sameplace to which we had gone theday before, but we came backsoon. We got twelve humming-birds, but there were no new onesamong them. They were dividedamong the following species: fiveemerald green ones {ChIo7ostil-hon angustipennis), two of thesmall emerald o-reen and blue ones{DamophUa juJia), one of the smallest kind [Acestrura heliodorl),one with an amethyst gorget (Acestritra midsanti), two young ruby. JAGUAH SKULL. 112 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. and topaz, and one of the large black-tliroated ones {LampornsnUjricoUls). In the afternoon we were bnsy getting our things together, as Ave ly. The climate of concluded to start back on the following dii
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