. 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 . BLACK JACANA (JACANA NIGRA). 132 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. whippoorwills, and Cabell shot two, both females. They were muchsmaller than ours, had bristles along the gape, their tails wereslightly forked, and marked like that of our night-hawk, exceptrusty instead of gray. Above they were mottled with rufous andblack (Stenopsis ruficermx). Here, also, we got several long shotsat some cormorants, but failed to get an
. 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 . BLACK JACANA (JACANA NIGRA). 132 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. whippoorwills, and Cabell shot two, both females. They were muchsmaller than ours, had bristles along the gape, their tails wereslightly forked, and marked like that of our night-hawk, exceptrusty instead of gray. Above they were mottled with rufous andblack (Stenopsis ruficermx). Here, also, we got several long shotsat some cormorants, but failed to get any. They seemed to be of auniform grayish color. The boatman called them pato cuervo,crow-duck. I saw at least three species of ducks, but could not identify any. ^Meigefy MURINE OPOSSUM (DIDELPHYS MUJRINUs). of them. When we returned to the boat we concluded to cross theriver, so we hoisted a coarse sail of bagging, and were soon across,although the river here is very wide. As we passed under some BACK TO BARRANQUILLA. 133 willow-like bushes overhanging the water, I saw in one of them alarge mud ball, about the size of a mans head. Cabell pulled itdown, and found it to be a nest of some kind. It had a little holein one side, and was lined with strips of bark. In it he found whatI thought at first was a rat; but a glance at the thumb on the forepaws showed it to be a possum. It was smaller than a rat, yellow-ish brown above, paler beneath, with a black stripe on each side ofits head, from its nose to its ear, embracing the eye (Didelphysmurinus). It was a female, I think, and had no pouch that I coulddiscover; but its teats were arranged in a circle at the lower partof its belly. At this place we saw a number of large alligators,but got no shot
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