. 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 . e {Ja(;ana nujra). When Icame to skin this bird, I found that, although it much resembles acoot, it is very easily skinned, whilst it is almost an impossibility toget the skin of a coots neck to pass over the head. Later in theday I saw others that were whitish below. They were probablyyoung. The one that I killed was a female. At this place I saw aslender clay-colored snake; but it ran under some driftwood beforeI cou
. 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 . e {Ja(;ana nujra). When Icame to skin this bird, I found that, although it much resembles acoot, it is very easily skinned, whilst it is almost an impossibility toget the skin of a coots neck to pass over the head. Later in theday I saw others that were whitish below. They were probablyyoung. The one that I killed was a female. At this place I saw aslender clay-colored snake; but it ran under some driftwood beforeI could kill it. A little farther up the river I shot at a purple gal-linule, and crippled it, but did not get it. Cabell got a snap shotat a small alligator, but missed, and later he shot one of the ternsthat we had seen so often. It was a large bird, a male in poorplumage, grayish above ; tail short and forked, dark grayish; wingswhite, primaries black, below white, crown black, beak yellow,feet the color of yellowish green oil paint [Phaetlmsa magniros-tris). Farther up the river, where an opening offered, we wentashore. Here we found among the underbrush a number of small. jLAOK JACANA (JACANA NIGRA). 132 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. wliippoorwills, and Cabell shot two, both females. They were muchsmaller than ours, had bristles along the gape, their tails weresHghtly forked, and marked like that of our night-hawk, exceptrusty instead of gray. Above they were mottled with rufous andblack [Stenopsis rujicervlx). Here, also, we got several long shotsat some cormorants, but failed to get any. They seemed to be of auniform grayish color. The boatman called them pato cuervo,crow-duck. I saw at least three species of ducks, but could not identify any
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