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interest. We brought home some two hundred and eighty 

 live birds which are now housed in the New York Zoological 

 Park. 



Once off the single wharf-lined, business street of George- 

 town, one is instantly struck by the beauty of the place. 

 Green trees, flowering vines and shrubs are everywhere, half 

 hiding the ugly, tropical architecture. The streets are all 

 wide, some with gravel walks down the centre, shaded with 

 the graceful saman trees; others with central trenches filled 

 with the beautiful Victoria regia here a native. 



Two species of big Tyrant Flycatchers 101> 103 are the Eng- 

 lish Sparrows of the city and White-breasted Robins, 128 

 Palm 144 and Silver-beak 14G Tanagers perch on the limbs of 

 trees at one's very window. 



Although we are anxious to start on our first expedition 

 into the " bush," as the primeval forests of the interior 

 are called, yet a week passes very pleasantly in the city 

 itself. 



The street life is a passing pageant, full of interest and of 

 the charm of novelty for the Northerner. Carriages roll 

 past in which sit very correctly dressed and typical English 

 women; still others are filled with Creoles, some to all appear- 

 ances perfectly white, others in which the infusion of negro 

 blood is very apparent. Many of the creole women have a 

 certain languid beauty and a good deal of grace and self- 

 possession. The passing of the liveried carriage of the 

 Governor causes a ripple of excitement. It is five o'clock, 

 the fashionable hour for driving, and all these equipages 

 are bound for the sea-wall, where the occupants sit and 

 listen to an excellent band, enjoy the sea breeze and chat with 

 their neighbors about the all-important happenings of the 

 social set of Georgetown; while the pale-faced children dig 

 in the sand or run shrieking with glee from an incoming 

 wave, just as do their rosy contemporaries of the North. 



