. 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 . cao 138 Mountain at Curacao 140 Curacao Oriole (Colored Plate) 142 Aborigines of Curacao 143 Donkey Team, Curacao I44 Breakwater and Harbor of La Guayra 146 Red Snapper 148 Section of Cup 170 Red-Tailed Hawk (Living Bird) 172 Green Heron (Mouuted Skin) 173 White Perch I74 X LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Sea Bass ^„, SCULPIN ... 175 SCULPIN .... ^-^- 175 Lobster . ^^„ l/b Tailpiece .... i^„ • . I/O A FLYING TRIP TO THE
. 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 . cao 138 Mountain at Curacao 140 Curacao Oriole (Colored Plate) 142 Aborigines of Curacao 143 Donkey Team, Curacao I44 Breakwater and Harbor of La Guayra 146 Red Snapper 148 Section of Cup 170 Red-Tailed Hawk (Living Bird) 172 Green Heron (Mouuted Skin) 173 White Perch I74 X LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Sea Bass ^„, SCULPIN ... 175 SCULPIN .... ^-^- 175 Lobster . ^^„ l/b Tailpiece .... i^„ • . I/O A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. CHAPTER I. THE VOYAGE. I HAVE alwaysbeen fond of Nat-ural History in gen-eral, but especiallyof the study ofbirds, and at everynew place that Ihave visited I havemade it a point tolook up the birds ofthe neighborhoodon every opportu-nity, to study theirhabits and to ac-quaint myself withthem as thoroughlyas possible. As aresult of this, it hap-pens that I haveseen a large per-centage of our com-moner birds of theAtlantic seaboard, and that, from familiarity with plates, drawings,and descriptions, I can recognize at once nearly every new one thatI 2 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. In the fall of 1891 I was stationed at the U. S. Military Academy,West Point, New York. My duties as instructor kept me occupiedthroughout the greater part of the week, but on Saturday after-noons I had a few hours which I usually devoted to rambling through the forests in the rearof the governmentreservation, on thelookout for whateverbirds I miofht meet. One such afternoonin November, I hadreturned from a lonstramp over very rug-ged ground with atotal of three speciesof birds observed :a pair of crows, adowny Avoodpecker,and a little band ofsix tomtits, — verymeagre results for theseven or eight milesthat I had gone over;and I was complainingabout it to my the course of ourconversation, I Avasled on to remark upon Avhat I considered must be the enjoyment ofa naturalis
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