THE MAGDALENA RIVER. 



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GLAUCIS HIRSUTA. 



(From Elliot.) 



feeding some humming-birds, and Cabell shot a pair. They were 

 larger than any that we had met before, and had long curved bills, 

 the lower mandible yellow, the upper dark with a yellow streak on 

 each side. Above they were metallic green, the upper tail-coverts 

 with light buff edgings, the throat 

 rufous, under parts buffy, central 

 tail-feathers green with whitish 

 tips, the others rufous with whit- 

 ish tips and a blackish subtermi- 

 nal bar. There was a light buff 

 streak from the gape and another 

 from behind the eye ( Glaucis hir- 

 suta). One of these, a female, 

 had a number of white feathers 

 scattered among the green ones 

 of the back. I shot here one of 



the rufous-tailed humming-birds {Amazilia fiisciccmdata). From 

 this place we pushed on about fifty yards, until we reached the 

 edge of the forest, and here we found birds in abundance. Cabell 

 shot first and killed a large bird nearly the size of our crow. This 

 was a male. It had an oriole bill, black with a coral red tip, a 

 light blue excrescence on each side at the base of the lower man- 

 dible, a flesh-colored excrescence on its forehead, and light blue 

 skin around and back of its eye. Its feet were crow-like and black. 

 Its under parts, head, neck, and wings were black, the feathers of 

 the neck with white bases. From its forehead sprung three long 

 filamentous feathers. Its upper wing-coverts, scapulars, centre of 

 its rump, and under tad-coverts were rich chocolate. Its tail was 

 clear yellow with the exception of the two central feathers, which 

 were black, and which in this specimen extended only halfway down 

 to the tip of the tail {Giimnosthiops cjuathnozbms). The natives 

 called it an " oro pendola," gold hang-nest ; but they apply this 

 name indiscriminately to all the oriole family that build pendent 

 nests. About the same time I sliot another, very similar in style 



