. 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 . hem. They runwith extraordinary rapidity, and stand higher from the groundwhen running than any lizard that I have seen. So rapid is themotion of their feet that they can actually run over the surface ofwater. This I saw repeatedly. I know of no other animal thatcan do this, except that I have seen frogs keep on the surface for asuccession of rapid jumps; but frogs are web-footed, and theselizards are not. I saw severa
. 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 . hem. They runwith extraordinary rapidity, and stand higher from the groundwhen running than any lizard that I have seen. So rapid is themotion of their feet that they can actually run over the surface ofwater. This I saw repeatedly. I know of no other animal thatcan do this, except that I have seen frogs keep on the surface for asuccession of rapid jumps; but frogs are web-footed, and theselizards are not. I saw several cross pools ten feet in width andkeep on the surface for the whole distance. They also climb saw them in the mano^roves on branches overhanoino- the water. 46 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. As we passed under a low tree, one, frightened by us, sprang outon Cabells back, and thence to the ground, giving him quite astart. We also saw numbers of other lizards, some striped green,blue, and yellow; other small ones, gray, with dark red heads. Wading along the waters edge, we shot a pair of ibises, largerthan our white ibis, but of the same general shape. They were of. BASILISCUS AMERICANUS. a dark glossy green, their legs, beaks, eyes, bare skin of face andgular space red (Phimoses infiiscatus). We got several shots atflocks of parrakeets, and killed five or six, all of the same had been feeding on mangoes, and it was a difficult matterto prevent the soft yellow pulp that oozed from their beaks fromsoding their feathers. We also shot some blackbirds of the samegeneral shape as our red-winged ones, but smaller and with yellow BAREANQUJLLA. 47
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