. 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 . utheast of the town. At a point on thesouthern edge of the Lagoon we passed some large shallow salt-water pools, where 1 saw wading about sand snipe of three differentsizes, but could recognize none of them. I also saw at a distance alarge hawk that flew like our marsh-hawk. I regret that we couldnot stay here long enough to work up thoroughly the birds of theisland. In the course of our drive Ave passed many attractiv
. 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 . utheast of the town. At a point on thesouthern edge of the Lagoon we passed some large shallow salt-water pools, where 1 saw wading about sand snipe of three differentsizes, but could recognize none of them. I also saw at a distance alarge hawk that flew like our marsh-hawk. I regret that we couldnot stay here long enough to work up thoroughly the birds of theisland. In the course of our drive Ave passed many attractive-looking IM A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. country places surrounded hy cool groves of fruit and palm nisperos were in perfection. Tliey mucli resemble a russet apple,but are soft and jiulpy, with large flat seeds. The pulp is verysweet, like unrefined sugar, and though I did not care for them atfirst, I soon grew to like them. I also tried some cashews, or cachiis,and found them not unpleasant, but my unfortunate curiosity led meto bite into one of the kidney-shaped excrescences at the larger warned by me, and if you ever have a cacliii, avoid the DONKEY TEAM. (;UKAp.). Very good food fish are caught outside. Among them Inoticed el capitan, a fish much like our scup, about a pound anda half in weight, and with red pectoral and ventral fins, and the king fish, eight or nine pounds in weight, a species of mack-erel of a uniform dark color. Of the shellfish, I saw quantities ofsand fiddlers, a few crabs of larger size, deep mahogany red withAvhite claws, and some large lobsters, much like ours b
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