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with scarlet and yellow the prevailing colors, the wings being largely 

 yellow {Ara mamo). I was told that it had been caught near 

 Barranquilla. 



Later on it grew so hot that we returned to the hotel, and sat 

 around in the shade until about four o'clock, when we went out for 



CATHEDRAL AT BARRANQUILLA. 



a long drive through the town. It covers a good deal of space, but 

 except the cathedral and one or two buildings near by, there are 

 no houses of any architectural pretensions. The majority of the 

 dwellinghouses are of mud and bamboo, thatched with rushes. In 

 some the mud is whitewashed, or is plastered smooth with lime, so 

 that from the street they appear solidly built of brick. One house 



