. 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 . laris). There was a peculiar point on the inner web ofthe third primary. These little birds hang head downwards on themangoes, and tear at the soft yellow pulp until nothing but theseed is left. When a flock is in a thick foliaged tree, althoughthey may be very noisy, they are sometimes difficult to see, as theircolors harmonize closely with those of the leaves. Cabell also shotan azulejo (Tanagra cana), a male in fair
. 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 . laris). There was a peculiar point on the inner web ofthe third primary. These little birds hang head downwards on themangoes, and tear at the soft yellow pulp until nothing but theseed is left. When a flock is in a thick foliaged tree, althoughthey may be very noisy, they are sometimes difficult to see, as theircolors harmonize closely with those of the leaves. Cabell also shotan azulejo (Tanagra cana), a male in fair plumage. Wecaught here some beautiful butterflies,some morphos especially, large ones,brown beneath with round eye-likespots, and above rich azure. Otherswith swallow-tails were striped metallicofreen and black, and others scarletand black. Throughout my stay m Colombia Ihad untold trouble in keeping butter-flies. There was a minute red ant onthe boat which soon found anything toeat, and destroyed it in a few minutes. Some butterflies that I hadput in a tin box the day before were nothing but fragments whenI examined them. The only sure way is to put the box on a little. CYANOPHAIA GOUDOTI. (From Elliot.) THE MAGDALEXA RIVER. 61 pedestal in a basin of water, and to examine it every few lionrs tosee that the water has not evaporated. After breakfast, we pre-pared onr birds as the boat went along, shot at alligators from timeto time, and tried fishing when the boat stopped, bnt got no saw birds in great abnndance, and, among new ones, some largegreen parrots. They, like macaws, fly in pairs; but their mannerof flight is as different as possible. Tliey have a rapid, tremulouswing-beat, exactly like that of our leather-wing bat. Speaking ofbats, there are a great many along the river, and at nightfall wesaw them flying about close to the surface of the water. Some aremuch larger than ours, Avitli longer and more pointed wings. Late in the afternoon we reached Mompos, and
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