. 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 . CATHKDRAL AT BANCO. great many shots at alligators, but struck only a few. Among newbirds I saw several small flocks of roseate spoonbills {Ajaja ajaja),and some immense flocks of wood ibises {Tantrilus loc^dator). Itwas clear and hot during the day, but cooled off a little at night, sothat we could go to sleep without the jireliminary Turkish saw to-day. floating in the river, a dead snake about ten feetin
. 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 . CATHKDRAL AT BANCO. great many shots at alligators, but struck only a few. Among newbirds I saw several small flocks of roseate spoonbills {Ajaja ajaja),and some immense flocks of wood ibises {Tantrilus loc^dator). Itwas clear and hot during the day, but cooled off a little at night, sothat we could go to sleep without the jireliminary Turkish saw to-day. floating in the river, a dead snake about ten feetin length. THE MAGDALEN A RIVER. 63. COLOMBIAN SCREAMER (CHAHNA DERBIANA). Monday, June 27, 1892. Upon waking- early I found that wewere unloading at a little group of huts, and as I heard a greatmany birds, I hastily dressed and hurried ashore with my a few yards of the boat I shot one of the medium-sizedkingfishers, a male, marked like ours with a chestnut belt, butglossy green above [Ceryle cmiazona). 1 saw here a flock of little 64 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. short-tailed parrakeets, as small as sparrows {Pslttacida conspicil-k(ta), and some little swallows about the size of our bank-swallow,with white bodies and dark wings {Tachi/cineta cdhlventrls ?). Ihad to hurry back to the boat before I could shoot any more, andon our w^ay up the river I skinned the kingfisher. Later in theday we stopped again, and I w^ent ashore, but found it so intenselyhot that I soon came back. I saw here, with some chickens, a pairof the turkey-like birds that I had seen on the 24th. They hadred legs, with long straight toes a
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