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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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ed legs (JBimantopus mexicanus), great numbers of a speciesof jacana, dark, with a bright red frontal crest, and apparently allthe feathers in the last joint of their wings whitish (Jacana nigra),large crow-blackbirds, the females chocolate-colored (Quiscalus as-similis), long-tailed anis (Crotophaga sulcirostris), kingfishers,larger than ours but with the same discordant rattle (Ceryle tor-quata), pigeons, ground doves, and quantities of flycatchers of dif- BARRANQUILLA. 33 ferent kinds. As we drew nearer Barranqnilla I saw a flock ofbirds flying with rapid wing-beats, looking just like a flock of ourdoves ; but as they veered off, the sunlight struck them and I sawthat they were light green in color. They were parrakeets, thefirst birds that I had seen on the mainland answering my expecta-tions as regards tropical birds. Later on, several flocks flew by thetrain near enough for me to hear their harsh, screeching notes.Just after leaving*; the seashore, I noticed on both sides of the
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HOTEL VICTORIA AND AMERICAN CONSULATE, BARRANQUILLA. track among the trees a great many burrows with a little mound ofearth thrown up around the entrance, and in each of these I couldsee a large blue crab (Cardiosoma guanhumi). Our three guns, which were in their canvas covers and strappedin one bundle, had been passed by the inspector at Puerto Colom-bia, and we anticipated no more trouble about them; but, to our 34 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. disgust, when we were leaving the station at Barranquilla, an oldmulatto insisted on taking them to the custom-house. Argumentswere of no avail; we had to give them up. At the depot we took a carriage, a little open concern drawn bydiminutive mules, and drove first to the Pension Ingles, a hotel keptby a young Englishwoman, a Miss Hoare. Unfortunately for us,she had no vacant rooms, though she promised to let us have someon the following day. From here we drove to the Hotel Colombia,with no better success. Finally, at the Hotel Victoria we se

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