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A FLYING TRIP 10 THE TROPICS. 



o-reen in color, and the size of a small fiddler crab. We tied up 

 for the night. It Avas hot, but we were not troubled by mosquitoes. 

 Friday, July 1, 1892. We made an early start and did not 

 stop until late in the forenoon, when it was too hot to find many 

 birds. I went ashore and killed a curved-billed humming-bird like 





COLLAKED AKAJAKI (PTEKOGLOSSUS TOKQUATUs). 



those that we had shot on June 28 (yGIaucls hirsuta), and a pair 

 of new toucans, smaller than the one that Lindauer killed. Their 

 tails were longer and the feathers graduate like those of our cuckoo. 

 Their beaks Avere deeply serrate, the upper mandible yellowish 

 white with a black tip, a black streak on top, and a reddish mark at 

 the side of base ; the lower mandible black, and both bordered at the 



