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A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. 



As we passed under a low tree, one, frightened by us, sprang out 

 on Cabell's back, and thence to the ground, giving him quite a 

 start. We also saw numbers of other lizards, some striped green, 

 blue, and yellow ; other small ones, gray, with dark red heads. 



Wading along the water's edge, we shot a pair of ibises, larger 

 than our white ibis, but of the same general shape. They were of 



BASILISCUS AMERICANUS. 



a dark glossy green, their legs, beaks, eyes, bare skin of face and 

 gular space red (Phimoses infiiscatus). We got several shots at 

 flocks of parrakeets, and killed five or six, all of the same kind. 

 They had been feeding on mangoes, and it was a difficult matter 

 to prevent the soft yellow pulp that oozed from their beaks from 

 soding their feathers. We also shot some blackbirds of the same 

 general shape as our red-winged ones, but smaller and with yellow 



