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gray rock on which they are laid, it is only by a rare chance if you 

 find a nest without flushing the old bird. The young nighthawk is 

 about as broad as long, and, unlike the callow young of most birds, it 

 is covered from head to foot with a thick coat of down. 



On our return we anchored the first night in a little harbor at Allons' 

 Key, where two small fishing-boats had already taken refuge from a 

 threatening squall. We saw the ruins of several huts on this island, and 

 the remains of a small grove of cocoanut trees, which had been blown 

 down in the destructive hurricane of September, 1884. The place was so 

 infested by mosquitoes that this little settlement had to be abandoned. 

 It rained heavily in the night, but our men took an early start, and 

 awoke us the next morning at five by announcing the discovery of a 



FiQ. 6.— Fruit and Flowers of tue Seven-Yeab Apple {Genipa clusiifolia). 



natural size.) 



(One half 



"loggerhead's track." The beaches had been leveled by the rain, so 

 Tnat any new impression could be readily seen. The turtle had ascended 

 the beach to a point above high tide, had stirred up the sand, leaving 

 a great heap over her eggs, and returned to the water but a short time 

 before we landed. This was shown by the ebbing tide, which had re- 

 treated only a phort distance from her last tracks. The eggs were laid 

 in a bunch, and covered with sand a foot and a half deep. There were 



