THE MAGDALENA RIVER. 



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MAGANGCE FROM THE BIVER. 



we returned to the forks of the river, where we picked up our bongo, 

 which had been left there during the night, and then headed for 

 Mompos. 



About ten o'clock we stopped for an hour for wood, and Cabell 

 and I took advantage of this to go ashore with a gun. Within fifty 

 yards of the boat we found a small tree covered with fringy-looking 

 flowers, and around these some humming-birds were feeding. In a 

 few minutes we killed six, two of one kind and four of another. 

 The first were of moderate size, bills broad at the base, reddish with 

 dark tips. They were green above, throats metallic green, under 

 parts ashy, tail, including the upper and under coverts, rufous, the 

 retrices with narrow bronze edgings {Amazllla fusiccmdata). The 

 second kind were green above, throats glittering green, lower part 

 of breast grayish, a white patch on the belly, under tail coverts 



