THE MULE ROAD AND GUADUAS. 



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CHKYSOLAMPIS MOSCHITUS. 

 (From Elliot.) 



ruby feathers on the crown and a few topaz ones on the throat. 

 Though we saw great numbers of humming-birds, we had to select 

 our shots carefully, for if one 

 fell in the thick underbrush, 

 it was a hopeless task to 

 look for it. We found that 

 we had either to wait until 

 they were over an open space 

 or else shoot them immedi- 

 ately overhead, so that they 

 would drop at our feet, and 

 even then we lost a good many. 

 A third new kind that I 



killed was a small bird, green above, green and white below, chin, 

 spot back of eye, and flanks white, and gorget amethyst. Its tail 

 was peculiar, black, and forked, the two outer feathers on each side 

 being reduced almost to a bare stem {Acestrura niulsanti). 



In the grove we picked some of the most delicious oranges that 

 I ever tasted. We started back to the hotel shortly after ten o'clock, 

 and on our way stopped to fish in the little stream that we crossed. 

 We used grasshoppers for bait, and in a few minutes caught a half 



dozen small fish, shad-like in general 

 shape, but with the fleshy dorsal fin of 

 a trout. Their jaws were also much 

 heavier than those of a shad, and in 

 the lower jaw in front were a pair of 

 strong and sharp teeth {Characln sj).). 

 We broke the only hook that we had 

 with us, so liad to stop fishing. 



In the afternoon Cabell and myself 

 returned to the coft'ee plantation, and 

 got seven or eight humming-birds. It was close cloudy at this 

 time, and the light under the trees was barely more than twilight, 

 so we lost more of the humming-birds than we got. I myself lost 



ACESTRURA MULSANTI. 

 (From Elliot.) 



