. 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 . ve swamp a pair of small herons,-which I took to be our green heron, a number of the medium-sizeddoves, a medium-sized tern, apparently jiure white, and a very smallone, white with a black crown. We reached the hotel before break-fast, and afterwards skinned our birds. In the afternoon we wentfor a long drive. I carried my camera and took a number of saw great numbers of humming-birds and ground doves, andthre
. 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 . ve swamp a pair of small herons,-which I took to be our green heron, a number of the medium-sizeddoves, a medium-sized tern, apparently jiure white, and a very smallone, white with a black crown. We reached the hotel before break-fast, and afterwards skinned our birds. In the afternoon we wentfor a long drive. I carried my camera and took a number of saw great numbers of humming-birds and ground doves, andthree partridges running along the road with their crests up. Ialso saw several sparrow-hawks, and a hawk of much larger sizeflying at a distance. Donkeys are used a great deal around Curagao. We saw manymen and women riding them, the women sitting astride of the littleanimals, with their big toes thrust in loops of cord which served asstirrups. It was partially cloudy and cool. Thursday, July 28, 1892. The Venezuela came in shortly afterdaybreak this morning, so as soon as we Avere up we went over tosee our friends on board. After our return to the hotel I took my ^^r*-—^. J S KeudemajTs del Chromo , ICTERUS XANTHORNUS CURASOENSIS,i^Tv. Ciaracao Qpiole . daikoroft Librasty CURACAO AGAIN. 143 camera and went up to Fort Nassau on the hill hack of the town,whence I took several views of the liarhor. I passed on my waysome tamarind-trees in hloom, around which were quantities ofhumming-hirds of the two species. I also saw numbers of thechestnut-crowned yellow warblers, the honey-creepers, and the
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