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Title: 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
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Robinson, Wirt, b. 1864
Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) Riverside press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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and it had a slight gular pouch.This was an immature bird. The name guacharaca, given tothis bird from, its call, recalls at once the Mexican bird similarlynamed, the chachalaca. It was clear and hot. Thursday, July 14, 1892. Cabell and myself went out aboutsix this morning to the place where we went on Tuesday. We hadhardly reached the spot when we saw several fork-tailed flycatchers(Milmdus tyrannus), and I shot a pair, male and female. Theirbodies are about the size and color of that of our kingbird, lightgray above, the head blackish with a concealed yellow patch. Theirflight is so graceful that they seem to float through the air. Theyperch on the tops of small bushes, just as our kingbird does. Alittle later Cabell shot a new dove, a male, about the size of ourCarolina dove, but with a short tail, reddish, the under tail-covertsreddish, and two blue-black streaks on each side of the head (Ze-naida ruficauda, Bonaparte). He also shot a pair of the little BACK TO BARRANQUILLA. 119
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FORK-TAILED FLYCATCHER (iVIILVULUS TTRANNFS). ground doves, and later I killed a second one of the rufous-taileddoves, also a male. We saw a covey of eight partridges; butalthough we ran in upon them at once, we flushed but one and didnot get it. We were much troubled to-clay by a sort of nettle which 120 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. is very abundant here. It has large leaves covered with a multitudeof hair-like thorns, which prick at the least touch and produce aburning pain which lasts for some time, and, to say the least, is verydisagreeable. The heat soon became so oppressive that shortly aftereiffht we turned back and reached the hotel about nine. Afterbreakfast I skinned the birds, and the remainder of the day wespent around the hotel. An Indian boy brought to the hotel forsale a fresh fish of the same kind as the small ones that we hadcaught at Gnaduas, but this one was about four pounds in weight.It had been caught in the river in front of the town. We received some letters t

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