The Oologist. 



VOL. XVI. NO. 8 



ALBION, N. Y., AUGUST, 1899. 



Whole No. 157 



The Oologist. 



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From Porto Rico— An Old Friend in a 

 New Place. 



The tropical sun rose clear and bright 

 and intensely warm on the morning of 

 the 27th of March, and a comrade and 

 myself making our preparations for a 

 days outing walked down through the 

 city of San Juan and engaging a sail- 

 boat for twenty centavos to take us 

 across the bay we were soon on the 

 waters gleaming in the sun and rippling 

 in the refreshing breeze coming in off 

 the ocean. 



Off to our right the sun gleamed on 

 the silvery plumage of numerous Terns 

 darting in many a maze of graceful 

 geometrical figures through the air, 

 and every now and then the less grace- 

 ful form of a Pelican smote the water 

 hfav'ly and alpiost disappearing after 

 a struggle ri:<ing with a few labored 

 flaps of his long wings he gulped his 

 shinning, scaly treasure into his capa- 

 cious pouch and continued his hunt. 



After a delightful little sail we were 

 ashore at Catania and proceeded along 

 a road bordered for a mile or more on 

 either side with marshes and swamps. 

 Of the nature of these swamps one can 

 hardly gain an idea without seeing 

 them. 



In large part they are thickly grown 

 with bush which grows with many 

 arched stalks at bottom, uniting in one 

 above. 



Shallow water and bottomless mud 

 form the lower strata of these swamps. 



