. 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 . HYPUROPTILA BITFFONI. (From EUiut.) 106 A FLYING TRIP TO THE DAMOPHILA JULIA. (From Elliot.) (young of CkrysoktTnjns moschitics). Fourth, a rufous-tailed hum-ming-bird, like those that we had gotten on the river (Amaziliafuscicaudatu). Fifth, similar to the last, but tail blue-black andforehead dirty blue {Ainazllia ci/anifrons). Sixth, small, brilliantemerald green above and below, and tail blue-black [ChJor
. 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 . HYPUROPTILA BITFFONI. (From EUiut.) 106 A FLYING TRIP TO THE DAMOPHILA JULIA. (From Elliot.) (young of CkrysoktTnjns moschitics). Fourth, a rufous-tailed hum-ming-bird, like those that we had gotten on the river (Amaziliafuscicaudatu). Fifth, similar to the last, but tail blue-black andforehead dirty blue {Ainazllia ci/anifrons). Sixth, small, brilliantemerald green above and below, and tail blue-black [ChJorostilhon angusti2:)ennis). Sev-enth, similar in size and shape to the last, buttail different, and belly very deep metallicblue {Damojihila jiilia). Eighth, very mi-nute, greenish above, white collar and flanks,below rufous, tail chestnut, Avitli dark greensubterminal bar and a few metallic amethystfeathers in a dusky throat (young of Aces-trura heliodori). The total length of thislast was just two and a quarter inches. He also shot an owl aboutthe size of our short-eared owl, but Avith long ears, the plumagemore rusty than that of our long-eared owl and the feet more bare{Bubo mexicanus). This he had found roosting in some thickcoffee plan
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