. 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 . ts plumage wasglossy blue-black. Its eyes were white with fine red lids, andits bill light yellow [Pipra auricapilla). At this place I saw aflock of certainly five hundred of the orange-chinned parrakeets(Brotogerys jugularis) in a mango-tree near the boat. After leaving this place, we stopped no more uutil we tied up forthe night; so I spent the rest of the day in skinning the birds andshooting at alligators. Every sa
. 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 . ts plumage wasglossy blue-black. Its eyes were white with fine red lids, andits bill light yellow [Pipra auricapilla). At this place I saw aflock of certainly five hundred of the orange-chinned parrakeets(Brotogerys jugularis) in a mango-tree near the boat. After leaving this place, we stopped no more uutil we tied up forthe night; so I spent the rest of the day in skinning the birds andshooting at alligators. Every sand-bar, or playa as they arecalled, was sure to have a number on it. They generally lie in thesun with their mouths wide open, the upper jaw making an angleof forty-five degrees with the lower. When shot at, they sometimesslid off into the water like terrapins from a log; but when theywere well up on the playa, they rose deliberately to their feet andwalked off, their bodies looking as high from the ground as that ofa dos. All day long the river was very crooked; there were bluffs ofred clay along the shores; the country was not so marshy, and we THE MAGDALEN A RIVER. 71.
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