THE MULE ROAD AND GUADUAS. 



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Wednesday, July 6, 1892. I felt a little better, but was still 

 unable to eat anything, and stayed in bed all day. 



Thursday, July 7, 1892. I felt worse in the morning and sent 

 again for the doctor, but was told that he had gone away the day be- 

 fore and would be back in " about a week." I was feeling pretty 

 blue over this news when my brother came in to say that an English 

 gentleman stopping in the hotel, a Mr. George Child from Bogota, 

 on his way to Honda, learning of my sickness and of the fact that 

 there was now no doctor in the town, had kindly offered me a rem- 

 edy which he had with him, " chlorodyne." Within ten minutes 

 after taking the first dose I began to feel better, and from this point 

 I recovered rapidly. Cabell made some beef tea for me later in the 

 day, which was very strengthening. In the afternoon he went out 

 with his gun for a little while and returned with quite a collection 

 of birds. Among them were a pair of cardinals, an ani like the 

 one killed in Barranquilla, and a hawk rather smaller than our 

 Cooper's hawk, beak horn-blue and black, eyes, feet, cere, and skin of 

 face yellow, above plumbeous, the tail black barred, the rump white 

 with black bars, the primaries chestnut, black barred, under coverts 

 finely marked with chestnut arrows, below plumbeous turning to 

 rusty, breast and belly closely barred, the bars growing smaller 

 towards the vent, and thighs closely barred with rusty {Riqjomls 

 magnirostris). The natives called this a " garrapatero," or tick- 

 eater, but they apply the same name to the milvago and to the anis. 

 He also brought back a tanager of the usual size, and with a beak 

 much like that of our summer redbird, uniform blue-black with 

 white shoulders and under wing-coverts {Tachyphonus nielaleiiciis)^ 

 a little ground dove, a blue-rumped parrakeet, and a pair of par- 

 tridges, both males, about the size and shape of our bob- white." 

 Their back, wings, and tail were very like those of our bird, top of 

 head buffy and black, with a recurved crest of clay-cok)red feathers, 

 chin, forehead, and ear-coverts Avhitish, throat, stripe above eye, and 

 malar stripe rufous, breast mottled black, white, and rufous, the 

 rufous prevailing on the lower breast {Eiq^ysycJioi'tyx leucotls). 



