290 Habits of the Chegoe of Guiana. 



The late Rev. Lansdown Guilding had remarked upon the 

 subject as follows : — 



" Mr. Jennings could not have alluded to North America, 

 and was perfectly correct in saying that the birds of hot 

 countries do not equal those of the temperate zone in the 

 sweetness of their notes [II. 112.] : the fact is known to every 

 traveller ; 



" For Nature, here, 



Content to lavish on the feather'd race 

 All beauty's radiance, gives to other climes 

 The tribes melodious." 



In this island [St. Vincent], we have only one warbler, con- 

 fined to the mountains and inaccessible forests, but surpassing 

 in melody every tiling around him, and said to equal the night- 

 ingale, but, since the destructive eruption of the SoufFriere, it 

 has become very scarce ; a thrush, with a few sweet but un- 

 connected strains ; and a pretty chirping wren, that sometimes 

 warbles at daylight in the neighbourhood of country houses. 

 Such is our scanty catalogue of songsters ; while the brilliant 

 humming birds, and other beauties, are mute, even in the 

 season of their nuptials. 



" Like vivid blossoms glowing from afar, 

 Thick swarm the brighter birds. For Nature's hand, 

 That, with a sportive vanity, has deck'd 

 The plumy nations, there her gayer hues 

 Profusely pours. But, if she bids them shine, 

 Array'd in all the beauteous beams of day, 

 Yet, frugal still, she humbles them in song. " 



The hoarse and piercing scream of the parrot flock, soaring 

 above the loftiest monarch of the forest ; the melancholy whis- 

 tle of the hawk, as he sails away " to more profound repose ;" 

 attract, indeed, one's attention in the silence of these solitudes : 

 but have they anything to recommend them for their sweet- 

 ness?" [Lansdown Guilding. St. Vincent, May 1. 1830.]] 



Art. II. Notes on the Habits of the Chegoe of Guiana, better known 

 by the Name of Jigger (Vulex penetrans); and Instances of its 

 Effects on Man and Dogs. By Charles Waterton, Esq. 



" Prior e relicta 



Sede, novis domibus habitant, vivuntque receptae." Ovid, Met. 

 Leaving their former haunts, beneath the skin 

 They form new settlements, and thrive within. 



This apparently insignificant insect far outdoes the bug in 

 the exercise of its noxious qualities. The bug attacks you in 



