THE MAGDALENA RIVER. 



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COLOMBIAN SCREAMER (CHAUNA DERBIANA). 



Monday, June 27, 1892. Upon waking- early I fonncl that we 

 were nnloacling- at a little gronp of huts, and as I heard a great 

 many birds, I hastily dressed and hurried ashore with my gun. 

 Within a few yards of the boat I shot one of the medium-sized 

 kingfishers, a male, marked like ours with a chestnut belt, but 

 glossy green above {Ceryle amazona). 1 saw here a flock of little 



