AMAZON ANTS. 8038 
A compound ant-hill was established a 
short time since, on the terrace of the 
house in which I resided. I carefully 
observed the excursions of the Amazons, 
and one day remarked, they directed 
their route to a deserted ant-hill: the 
ants who had previously occupied it, 
pillaged doubtless too often by their so 
much dreaded neighbours, had taken the 
precaution of decamping with arms and 
baggage. The Amazons, who were 
perhaps badly lodged, profited by this 
circumstance. After having visited it, 
they returned, took up in their mouths 
the Negro Ants of the mixed ant-hill, 
and transported them to the new habit- 
ation. This operation lasted some 
hours, and the emigration was completely 
effected in this manner. 
In this mstance I saw the inverse of 
what I had hitherto observed, but never 
experienced the gratification of witness- 
ing a repetition. ‘Lhe Amazons carried 
the Ash-coloured Ants as the latter 
usually carry them. ‘The whole colony 
