. 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 . of us. It was clear and very hot during theday ; but we had a shower at bedtime. Tuesday, June 28, 1892. We were up early, and at the firststop for wood went ashore with our guns. We found the land tobe only a few inches above the level of the river, of a soft blackmud, and near the water covered with a heavy growth of largecanna-like plants, with red and yellow flowers. Around these were THE MAGDALEN A RIVER. 65 feedi
. 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 . of us. It was clear and very hot during theday ; but we had a shower at bedtime. Tuesday, June 28, 1892. We were up early, and at the firststop for wood went ashore with our guns. We found the land tobe only a few inches above the level of the river, of a soft blackmud, and near the water covered with a heavy growth of largecanna-like plants, with red and yellow flowers. Around these were THE MAGDALEN A RIVER. 65 feeding some humming-birds, and Cabell shot a pair. They werelarger than any that we had met before, and had long curved bills,the lower mandible yellow, the upper dark with a yellow streak oneach side. Above they were metallic green, the upper tail-covertswith light buff edgings, the throatrufous, under parts buffy, centraltail-feathers green with whitishtips, the others rufous with whit-ish tips and a blackish subtermi-nal bar. There was a light buffstreak from the gape and anotherfrom behind the eye (Glaucis hir-suta). One of these, a female,had a number of white feathers. GLAUCIS HIRSUTA. (From Elliot.) scattered among the green onesof the back. I shot here one of the rufous-tailed humming-birds (Amazilia fuscieaudata). Fromthis place we pushed on about fifty yards, until we reached theedge of the forest, and here we found birds in abundance. Cabellshot first and killed a large bird nearly the size of our crow. Thiswas a male. It had an oriole bill, black with a coral red tip, alight blue excrescence on each side at the base of the lower man-dible, a flesh-colored excrescence on its forehead, and light blueskin around and back of its eye. Its feet were crow-like and under parts, head, neck, and wings were black, the feathers ofthe neck with white bases. From its forehead sprung three longfilamentous feathers. Its upper wing-coverts, scapulars, centre ofits rump, and u
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