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A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. 



As we passed under a low tree, one, frightened by us, sprang out 

 on Cabell's back, and thence to the ground, giving him quite a 

 start. We also saw numbers of other lizards, some striped green, 

 blue, and yellow ; other small ones, gray, with dark red heads. 



Wading along the water's edge, we shot a pair of ibises, larger 

 than our white ibis, but of the same general shape. They were of 



BASILISCUS AMERICANUS. 



a dark glossy green, their legs, beaks, eyes, bare skin of face and 

 gular space red {Phimosus infuscatus). We got several shots at 

 flocks of parrakeets, and killed five or six, all of the same kind. 

 They had been feeding on mangoes, and it was a difficult matter 

 to prevent the soft yellow pulp that oozed from their beaks from 

 soiling their feathers. We also shot some blackbirds of the same 

 general shape as our red-winged ones, but smaller and with yellow 



