THE OOLOOIST 



19 18 

 A WORD TO SUBSCRIBERS 



Beginning with this issue of THE 

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R. M. BARNES. 



Bird Collecting In Eastern Colombia 



Paul G. Howes 



PART VII 



March 11th. This morning we were 

 up and out at 5:30. I went up a small 

 river about two miles from the town. 

 Birds proved to be abundant and in a 

 few hours I had a good bag. This 

 little river, which apparently has no 

 name, winds in and out between 

 beautifully grown sandy banks. I 

 spent the entire morning wading in 

 the cooling water and shooting from 

 the center of the stream. I managed 

 to get badly bitten by red ants when 

 I foolishly sat down upon the ground 

 to rest. These vile little insects got 

 inside my clothes and for a time near- 

 ly drove me crazy as their bite and 

 sting combined causes a rash much 

 like that of nettle. 



Later, while hunting in heavy under- 

 brush for a species Of Manacus that 

 I had felled, a large scaley head sud- 

 denly appeared in the mouth of a 

 burrow directly under my nose. Re- 

 maining motionless for a minute, my 

 blood ran cold at the sound of fierce 

 hissing, for we were now in the coun- 

 try of big snakes. In a panic I reach- 

 ed for my knife, having nothing but 

 a 32 cartridge and No. 12 shot in my 

 gun, and as I did so the creature dart- 



