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A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. 



natives at the landing, with sleeping-mats and other articles for 

 sale. Here I purchased for forty cents a large and prettily marked 

 tiger-cat's skin. Later in the day we stopped several times for 

 wood, and at one place we went ashore. We saw many wren- 

 like hirds, some resembling our Carolina wren, but as large as a cat- 

 bird. Cabell shot a second " azulejo." During the day we had a 



CATHEDRAL AT BANCO. 



great many shots at alligators, but struck only a few. Among new 

 birds I saw several small flocks of roseate spoonbills [Ajaja ajaja), 

 and some immense flocks of wood ibises {Tantalus loculator). It 

 was clear and hot during the day, but cooled off a little at night, so 

 that w^e could go to sleep without the preliminary Turkish bath. 

 Cabell saw to-day, floating in the river, a dead snake about ten feet 

 in leno^th. 



