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Grenada, tells me that he has in this way captured five in a single 

 night in the forest back of Victoria. 



Mr. Austin H. Clark tells me that several years previous to 1904 

 the armadillo was introduced from Grenada into Carriacou, but has 

 not been met with there since. He suggests that this island may be 

 too dry for its existence. 



CERVIDAE. 



Odocoileus. 



Gundlach (1866-7, p. 40) says that the deer is not native, but has 

 been introduced into Cuba. It is not mentioned by Ramon de la 

 Sagra (1840) in his work on Cuban mammals. 



LEPORIDAE. 



Oryctolagtts cuniculus (Linne). 



Lepus cuniculus Linne, Syst. Nat., 1758, ed. 10, 1, p. 58. 



The common hare has been introduced into Barbados, and into 

 Balliceaux in the Grenadines. Mr. Austin H. Clark writes (in 1903) 

 that on Barbados it is becoming rare, as the mongoose preys on the 

 young; but it is still very common on Balliceaux. What is presumably 

 the same animal was introduced long ago into Guadeloupe from 

 Europe. Du Tertre says of it, in 1654, that it had then become very 

 abundant, and made burrows to the depth of two or three feet, where 

 the hard volcanic "tuf" was encountered through which it was unable 

 to dig. He observes that the rats eat the young, and often kill the 

 old ones as well, from which he predicts their eventual extermination. 



Feilden (1890) states that, according to Dr. Sinclair Browne, they 

 were first brought to Barbados from England in 1842 by Thomas 

 Trotman; and were bred in an enclosure on the Bulkeley estate, 

 St. George's Parish. A heavy rainfall finally demolished part of the 

 enclosure and allowed the hares to escape. They increased rapidly; 

 and Dr. Browne recalled a man in St. Phillip's Parish who, about 

 1870, annually shot two or three hundred. By 1890, their numbers 

 were much reduced, due, according to Feilden, in part to the posses- 

 sion of firearms by the negroes, but chiefly to the mongoose. 



The European rabbit (Lepus europaeus) is said to have been in- 



