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into the mouth of the young one. We afterwards caught the 

 young one in a butterfly-net. 



We stayed at Ocana for more than three weeks, during which 

 time we made three different excursions, each excursion occupying 

 from four to five days. Twice we ascended the mountain-range 

 which we had crossed while coming to Ocana, and on the first 

 occasion put up at a hut near the summit, called Alto, and on 

 the second at Santa Rosa, a hut situated lower down and on the 

 Magdalena side of the range; but the forest was too thick for 

 us to do very much : we shot, however, the rare Thrush Turdus 

 euryzonus, Tanagra auricrissa, two or three species of Hum- 

 ming-birds, and a few other birds. Our third excursion was 

 to Herradura, a place consisting of half-a-dozen huts, and dis- 

 tant only three or four hours' journey from Ocana. Here wc 

 found a little w^ood consisting chiefly of fine and large trees. 

 It was bounded on one side by a small and shallow river, the 

 Rio D'Oro; thence we went on to La Cruz and Pirico, the for- 

 mer a village situated in a large savanna, the latter the name 

 of three or four huts situated at an altitude of about 5300 feet 

 above the level of the sea, and about 1000 feet above La Cruz, 

 and on the same ramification of the mountains as Alto, but fur- 

 ther to the south. Here w'e found a Humming-bird's nest. 



The nest was that of Panychlora alicia, and was built in a 

 briar which grew close to one of the huts, so close that it was 

 sometimes enveloped in the smoke which escaped through some 

 holes in the wall while cooking was going on inside. It was a 

 beautiful httle nest, built of cotton, which probably came from 

 a plant which grew near the hut ; the outside of it was covered 

 with lichen; and it contained two unfledged nestlings. The 

 duty of feeding these seemed to devolve entirely on the hen 

 bird, who was constantly going to and fro with food. The 

 cock did not make his appearance, though we watched the 

 greater part of an afternoon, not even when a charge of sand 

 from my gun knocked the hen bird down, and we took the 

 nest. About six inches above this nest, and on the same stem, 

 there was another, which looked as if it had been deserted be- 

 fore it had been quite finished. 



We were told that long-tailed " Colibri '' (as the people call 



