CHAPTER VIII. 



RESULTS OF THE TRIP. 



We had been gone from New York just fifty-four clays. In that 

 time we had been sixteen days on the ocean, twelve days on the 

 Mag'dalena, and three days on the mule road ; that is, we were trav- 

 eling thirty-one days. Exclusive of the shooting that we did 

 during the stops of the river steamer, Cabell and I had been out 

 together with our guns ten times, and he had been out three times 

 alone. We brought back 210 skins. I give below lists of the 

 birds that I observed in Colombia and in Curagao. Mr. Robert 

 Ridgway of the Smithsonian Institution has been kind enough to 

 identify the skins for me and also to assist me greatly in the prepa- 

 ration of the accompanying lists. The names of those birds identi- 

 fied beyond a doubt are printed in small capitals, whilst those which 

 are at all doubtful are printed in italics. References after notes 

 refer to colored plates of the bird. 



BIRDS OBSERVED IN COLOMBIA, SOUTH AMERICA. 



1. Phaethusa magnirostris (Light.). Large-billed Tern. 



Abundant on the Magdalena from Barranquilla to above 

 Puerto Berrio. We often saw as many as a hundred standing 

 together on some of the low sand bars, and sometimes a dozen 

 or more would float by us on a piece of driftwood. 



2. Anhinga anhinga (Linn.). Snake Bird. 



I saw a dozen or more of these along the Magdalena, but 

 never more than two together. They were usually flying, but a 



