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this Creeper performs the business of incubation. 

 On the 4th of May, as I was riding to Savanna le 

 Mar, I observed a Banana Quit with a bit of silk- 

 cotton in her beak ; and on searching, found a nest 

 just commenced in a sage-bush {Lantana camara). 

 The structure, though but a skeleton, was evidently 

 about to be a dome, and so far, was constructed of 

 silk-cotton. Since then I have seen several com- 

 pleted nests. One now before me, is in the form of 

 a globe, with a small opening below the side. The 

 walls are very thick, composed of dry grass, inter- 

 mixed irregularly with the down of Asclepias, It 

 appeared to have been forsaken, from my having 

 paid it too much attention. It was fixed between 

 the twigs of a branch of a Bauhinia, that projected 

 over the high road, near Content, in St. Elizabeths. 

 Another which I found at the end of June, in a 

 sage-bush, was of the same structure ; in this were 

 two eggs, greenish-white, thickly but indefinitely 

 dashed with reddish, at the larger end. Robinson 

 states the dimensions thus : — " the length about 3 J 

 eighths, the diameter about ^-J eighths," but I find 

 my specimens much larger than this : accurate 

 measurement giving f inch by rather less than -J 

 inch. 



An exceedingly interesting memoir, from the pen 

 of Mr. Hill, on the prevalence of domed nests 

 within the tropics, and the connexion of this fact 

 with electricity, will be found in the Zoological 

 Transactions for September 14th, 1841. 



