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curious species of lobster occur in the deep water outside the reefs, 
and though they differ much from each other, they are equally 
different from our American species. One is very slender and 
graceful with very long antennae, while the other is short, thickset 
and clumsy with very short antennae. Neither species has large 
chelae on the first pair of feet. The Cays are the resorts of numer- 
ous sea-birds, especially terms of several species which breed there. 
The graceful and handsome man-of-war bird is common around 
Kingston harbour, and roosts on the Cays, as does the brown pelican, 
which is quite common. One does not easily tire of watching peli- 
cans fishing, so unerring is their aim, and so remarkable the force 
with which’ they strike the water. 
Almost due west from Drunkenman Cay, the shore of Jamaica 
is a low beach of white sand upon which Spirula shells may be 
gathered at any time. Just back of this beach lie a series of three 
salt ponds, which must have been connected with, and probably 
were a part of the ocean until quite recently. The strip of land 
which at the present time separates the first and largest one from 
the ocean has increased in width very perceptibly in the last three 
years. The water seems to be much more densely saline in these 
ponds than in the sea, and animal life is far from abundant, 
presumably on that account. Gastropod shells oceur in great 
numbers, but we found very few living specimens, and almost the 
only other animal seen was the large medusa, already mentioned, 
Cassiopea, of which a few small specimens were observed. Croco- 
diles and fish are said to be abundant, but we saw only one or two 
of the former and very few of the latter. One of the fish, known 
locally as ‘Calipeerer, is highly spoken of as a food-fish, being 
compared to salmon. We were told that this fish is found nowhere 
else in the island, that it is marketed in Spanishtown in the spring 
only, and that no other fish in Jamaica approaches it in quality. 
Unfortunately we could not verify these statements, as we were 
unable to get either sight or taste of this remarkable ‘ calipeerer.’ 
Inside Kingston harbour the surface-collecting offers a good 
deal that is of interest. Several large medusae (Aurelia, Cyanea), 
are quite common, while on calm mornings the very graceful 
cubomedusa Charybdea is not rare. We only noted one species 
of ctenophore, but that is a large and- beautiful form, and is quite 
abundant. Two or three species of Sagitta are very common, and 
the curious decapod, Lucifer, fairly so. Crustacean larvae were 
abundant, but we found echinoderm larvae very rare, no matter 
when or where we towed. And this seems more remarkable when 
one considers that echinoderms are so abundant, and that many 
of the species were breeding; and, furthermore, echinoderm larvae 
were very abundant at the same place in 1891. Dredging gave 
