. 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 . MAIN STREET, CURAgAO. (From Pliotograjih by Soublette.) tramp steamer, the Navigator, of the Harrison Line, had come inand would sail for Savanilla the same afternoon, so I hastened overto see her commander. Captain Owen, and secure our found the Navigator to be a large freight steamer with only sixstaterooms, the accommodations being naturally far inferior in 26 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TBOPICS. every respect
. 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 . MAIN STREET, CURAgAO. (From Pliotograjih by Soublette.) tramp steamer, the Navigator, of the Harrison Line, had come inand would sail for Savanilla the same afternoon, so I hastened overto see her commander. Captain Owen, and secure our found the Navigator to be a large freight steamer with only sixstaterooms, the accommodations being naturally far inferior in 26 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TBOPICS. every respect to those of the Venezuela. However, we were anxiousto hurry on, so I took passage for us, for which I had to pay twentydollars apiece in gold. We took lunch on the Venezuela, and after-wards I skinned the birds thatwe had shot in the morning. Ihad never skinned a humming-bird before, and the first one thatI tried was such a sorry-looking. object when I had fin-ished, that I simplyopened the second, tookout the intestines, and filled it with dry arsenic. This is the waythat I preserved nearly all of the humming-birds that I secured onthis trip, and I afterwards had cause to regret it. Though theylook well enough at first, and though the flesh is preserved, itshrivels until the skin is distorted; and, again, if the birds arepacked away in a trunk for a week or ten days without being-aired, they are apt to be mouldy and mildewed when taken out. Ishould advise all collectors to skin their humming-birds as they dolarger birds. Later in the afternoon we took a short walk through the streets,went into the old Dutch fort to the post-office, mailed some letters,came back to say good-by to our friends on the Venezuela, thenhad our baggage taken over to the Navigator, and settled ourselvesin our staterooms. As we crossed the harbor, I saw flying over,high in the air, a frigate pelican [Frefjata aquila). It sailed alonggracefully,
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