. 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 . />..v^./ y <^r /yc^ OKO I/.KDOLA (( (iLATl^MOZINUs).. J &&ulemai\s del. MiTLtern. Bros . Ctiramo lith. London. PSITTACULA ,fr. Blufi-runrped Parrakeet Bftncroh Libnuy THE MAGI) ALEX A BIVEB. 67 harsh screams of some macaAvs ahead of me, so I pushed on throuo-hthe trees, and got a long- shot at one which fell screaming in athorny jungle. I forced my way into it, and as I picked it up
. 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 . />..v^./ y <^r /yc^ OKO I/.KDOLA (( (iLATl^MOZINUs).. J &&ulemai\s del. MiTLtern. Bros . Ctiramo lith. London. PSITTACULA ,fr. Blufi-runrped Parrakeet Bftncroh Libnuy THE MAGI) ALEX A BIVEB. 67 harsh screams of some macaAvs ahead of me, so I pushed on throuo-hthe trees, and got a long- shot at one which fell screaming in athorny jungle. I forced my way into it, and as I picked it up itbit my thumb until the blood streamed, and before I could chokeit oft I began to be afraid that my thumb would be cut in cries attracted its mate, Avhicli I also shot. They were smallerthan any macaws that I had seen, and were in wretched j^ general color was a grass-green, bluish about the head, areddish brown stripe on the forehead, primaries blue above, reddishbeneath, under wing-coverts scarlet, tail reddish at base, then green,then blue, but reddish beneath, skin of face white with lines ofbristly black feathers, beak black, feet dark [Ara sever a). A little later I shot a pair of the small parrakeets that I
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