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pools, they were hard to catch. Spiders of small size were common, 
and one large Phrynus was captured, carrying about a dozen large 
eggs on the under side of the abdomen. . 
Our second excursion made late in July was up Blue Mountain 
peak, and it was a pleasure and success far beyond our expectations. 
The changes in the flora as one goes upward must impress even an 
unbotanical zoologist, and the magnificent tree-ferns cannot be 
passed by in silence, As one gets well up into the mountains the 
clear whistle of the solitaire, not unlike that of our wood-thrush, is 
sure to attract attention. Some handsomely coloured finches were 
seen in the deepest woods, but birds did not seem to be abundant. 
On the summit of the peak we made a careful search for the eggs 
of a small tree-frog that is common there, and we were rewarded 
by finding many. They are laid in clusters of a dozen or more in 
the wet moss which covers everything. Each egg is two or three 
millimetres in diameter, and seems very large for the size of the 
animal. The scientific worker, no matter what his specialty, who 
visits Jamaica and fails to make the journey up Blue Mountain 
peak, misses one of the most charming features of the island. 
In 1897 the University established its laboratory at Port 
Antonio, the most beautiful harbour on the north side of the 
island. From here trips were made east and west along the coast, 
and inland to Cuna-cuna Pass, Castleton Gardens and Bog-Walk. 
Members of the party also visited Porus and Mandeville in the 
centre of the island, and one party made a week’s trip around the 
west end of the island, visiting the harbours of St Ann’s Bay, Rio 
Bueno, Falmouth, Montego Bay, Lucea, Saranna-la-mar and Black 
River. The marine fauna along the whole of the north shore seems 
to be essentially the same as on the south side of the island, but the 
land fauna differs very much from that near Port Henderson. There 
are no mangrove swamps on the north side in any way comparable 
to those at Port Royal, but the collecting on the reefs is very good, 
and strikingly like that on Drunkenman Cay. The same star-fish, 
sea-urchins, ophiurids, and holothurians occur, but are more abundant 
and easier of access at Port Antonio. The same may be said of 
most of the annelids, molluscs and sea-anemones, and is especially 
true of the corals. Deep water is so very near to the shore that 
the 100 fathom line is within easy rowing distance. The richest 
collecting is on the sandy bars or flats in one to three feet of water, 
where are plenty of slabs of broken coral rock, under which an 
abundance of animals is sure to be found. One of the most 
interesting of these is a small flesh-coloured holothurian, Chirodota, 
several specimens of which were collected with the body-cavity full 
of young. While collecting on these flats, the small but numerous 
fishes, many of them gorgeously coloured, proved a great annoyance, 
