. 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 . ^$:. ROAD TO BOGOTA. (By permission of Bureau of American Republics.) 92 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. almost perpendicular crests of the foothills, zigzagging back andforth at every ten yards, the pavement being built in steps up whichthe poor mules toiled. After about three hours climbing, westopped for rest at Las Cruces, a mud and thatch inn on the rightof the road. We found the air here decidedly cooler. Here I go
. A flying trip to the tropics. A record of an ornithological visit to the United States of Colombia, South America and to the island of Curaçao, West Indies, in the year 1892 . ^$:. ROAD TO BOGOTA. (By permission of Bureau of American Republics.) 92 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. almost perpendicular crests of the foothills, zigzagging back andforth at every ten yards, the pavement being built in steps up whichthe poor mules toiled. After about three hours climbing, westopped for rest at Las Cruces, a mud and thatch inn on the rightof the road. We found the air here decidedly cooler. Here I gotsome good oranges, and some green cocoanuts which were not nearlyso good as those that we had found at Barranquilla. The countrythrough which we had passed to this point was parched and in someplaces almost barren, being covered with a coarse grass and cactus;but farther on we struck the forest, and found little cool streamscrossing the road, and everything was fresher. I saw in the valleymany beautiful butterflies (some morphos especially being of largesize and brilliant color), a few humming-birds, and several flocks ofthe blue-rumped parrakeets. After about three quarters
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