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A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. 



place, who gave me a prescription of ipecac, chalk, and opium. 

 The night was cool, and we would have rested well except for the 

 multitude of fleas that fairly devoured us. We spent a wakeful 

 night and were fearfully bitten. 



Tuesday, July 5, 1892. I was worse this morning, having 

 slight symptoms of dysentery, so sent again for the doctor, who 

 gave me some calomel, after which I kept on the bed all day and 

 spent the time reading a Spanish edition of the " Scientific Ameri- 

 can." In the afternoon Cabell went out with his gun, and later 

 returned with some birds, among which were six large humming- 

 birds, all of the same species, but different from any that we had 



met so far. They were 

 large, the males brilliant 

 green above, the throat 

 and breast black with an 

 edging of deep blue, the 

 tail a rich purple bronze, 

 a white downy puff on 

 the belly, and a white 

 speck back of the eye. 

 The female was similar, 

 but below was white with 

 a black band down the 

 centre of the throat and 

 breast (Lamjwiiiis nigricoUis). These he had found feeding on 

 the scarlet blossoms of a large tree near the town. He also brought 

 in a green-naped pigeon, like the one that I had killed on the river, 

 and a woodpecker about the size of our yellow-bellied, but colored 

 somewhat like the red-bellied. Its head, throat, and below were 

 ash-buff, the centre of the belly and back of the head washed with 

 red, back closely barred with black and white, wings and two cen- 

 tral tail-feathers black and white, remaining tail-feathers black with 

 white tips, and rump white {Centuriis terricolor). 

 It was clear and warm. 



LAMPORNIS VIOLICAUDA. 

 (From Elliot.) 



