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and hopping over the dry leaves. They were of comparatively large 

 size, yellow Avith a black stripe down the back, and were wingless, 

 that is, their wings were not yet developed. The noise that they 

 made could be heard at least one hundred yards. I have heard in 

 Florida a similar noise made by multitudes of fiddler crabs running 

 over the dry marshes, but the noise of these grasshoppers was 

 greater. 



At another point on the road we passed a man who was carrying 

 with him a half dozen game-cocks. These were arranged in a pecul- 

 iar way, so as to be carried without injury. Each was furnished 

 with a pair of trousers of cotton cloth into the legs of which its 

 legs were thrust. The part corresponding to the seat was brought 

 up and buttoned over the back, securing the wings, and on the back 

 a loop was sewn by which the cocks were suspended from the sad- 

 dle. They were thus carried in a natural position without chafing 

 and without being able to strike at one another. It was clear and 

 hot. 



Tuesday, July 12, 1892. We stayed around the hotel in the 

 morning, and later went for a short walk through the town, calling 

 on our way upon Mr. Hallam. As we came back I bought for five 

 dollars at a saddler's shop a very large and handsome jaguar-skin. 

 Late in the afternoon Cabell and I took our guns and went out 

 about two miles on the table-land in rear of the town. We saw 

 very few birds. The land is hot and dry, with scanty vegetation, 

 and promises little. On our way out an iguana about three feet 

 long ran across the street just in front of us, and scrambled up 

 among some vines on an old stone wall. Cabell shot a rufous 

 ground dove (Cohmibigallina rufijmmis) of the same kind as the 

 one that we obtained in Barranquilla. We saw some partridges, 

 kingfishers {C. amazona), flycatchers, anis, and some very small 

 finches, but hardly anything else. We saw several small swarms 

 of the same kind of grasshoppers that we had seen on the day 

 before. The anis were feedinof on them. There are some beauti- 

 fully colored grasshoppers in Colombia. One that I saw several 



