. 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 . CHLOROSTILBON SPLENDIDUS. (After Elliot.) 24 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. height. We found other kinds gi-owing about; one esj^ecially trou-blesome resembled our prickly pear, but had very long appeared to have barbs on them, for when they entered theflesh they had to be picked to pieces before they could be cactus . . TEN, FIFTEEN, AND EVEN TWENTY FEET IN HEIGHT. When we brushed against one o
. 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 . CHLOROSTILBON SPLENDIDUS. (After Elliot.) 24 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. height. We found other kinds gi-owing about; one esj^ecially trou-blesome resembled our prickly pear, but had very long appeared to have barbs on them, for when they entered theflesh they had to be picked to pieces before they could be cactus . . TEN, FIFTEEN, AND EVEN TWENTY FEET IN HEIGHT. When we brushed against one of these plants, a whole segmentwould break off and hang dangling from our clothes. On our wayback we saw a pair of small hawks {Thimmcnhis sj^orverms brevi-2)enms), and got a couple of good shots at them, but the cartridgesthat I happened to have with me had been loaded for several yearsand were worthless, so we failed to get one. They seemed to bemuch the same as our sparrow-hawk. Our guide said that theywere called cliiki cliiki, from their cry, which much resembledthis word, and that they fed on the lizards, larguitos, which liter- THE ISLAND OF CURACAO. 25 ally swarmed through the scrub, — repulsive-lookiug creatures, somegreen, some brown, and all sjDotted and blotched with lighter was told that the green ones were males. They lived in burrows. We also saw at a distance some yellow and black orioles [Icterusxantliornus curasoensis). Our guide called them tropiales, butthey were not t
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