112 A FLYING TRIP TO THE TROPICS. 



and topaz, and one of the large black-throated ones {Lam2)ornis 

 nigricolUs). 



In the afternoon we were busy getting our things together, as we 

 concluded to start back on the following day. The climate of 



JAGUAR. 



Guaduas is delightful, and the place promises well, but Alice is get- 

 ting worn out by loss of sleej? and by poor food. I arranged about 

 our mules and two peons to accompany us and bring the mules 

 back. Our specimens so filled a trunk now that I had to purchase 

 another pataca. In the little shop where I bought the pataca, I saw 

 several deerskins, apparently of just the same color as our Virginia 

 deer, the fawns being likewise spotted, and the skull of a young 

 jaguar that had been killed not very far from Guaduas. The shop- 



