. 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 . eye, and flanks white, and gorget amethyst. Its tailwas peculiar, black, and forked, the two outer feathers on each sidebeing reduced almost to a bare stem (Acestrura mulsanti). In the grove we picked some of the most delicious oranges thatI ever tasted. We started back to the hotel shortly after ten oclock,and on our way stopped to fish in the little stream that we used grasshoppers for bait, and in a few m
. 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 . eye, and flanks white, and gorget amethyst. Its tailwas peculiar, black, and forked, the two outer feathers on each sidebeing reduced almost to a bare stem (Acestrura mulsanti). In the grove we picked some of the most delicious oranges thatI ever tasted. We started back to the hotel shortly after ten oclock,and on our way stopped to fish in the little stream that we used grasshoppers for bait, and in a few minutes caught a half dozen small fish, shad-like in generalshape, but with the fleshy dorsal fin ofa trout. Their jaws were also muchheavier than those of a shad, and inthe lower jaw in front were a pair ofstrong and sharp teeth (Characin sp.).We broke the only hook that we hadwith us, so had to stop fishing. In the afternoon Cabell and myself returned to the coffee plantation, and got seven or eight humming-birds. It was close cloudy at this time, and the light under the trees was barely more than twilight, so we lost more of the humming-birds than we got. I myself lost. ACESTRDKA MULSANTI. (From Elliot.) 110 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. nine. We got in all to-day twenty-one, among which were fivemales of the ruby and topaz, all in fine plumage. In the morningI saw flying over high in the air a pair of fork-tailed flycatchers(Milvulus tyrannus); but they kept on out of sight without light-ing. We saw a small flock of partridges ; but although we ranat once to the spot where they lit, we did not succeed in flushing asingle one. I noticed all through the coffee plantation a number of littlebeaten paths, from two to three inches wide, and perfectly cleanedof all grass, leaves, twigs, and even small gravel. They looked likethe impressions left on a grass lawn when a piece of timber that hasbeen lying on the grass for six months or more is taken up. Apeculiarity of these paths wa
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