116 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



The Alligators of (liiiaiia. William IJcche. Zoolofiical Society liullctin, Januan', 



191(). 

 A Naturalist's Tro])ical Lal)oratory. Tlieodore Roosevelt. Scribner's Magazine. 

 The Pomeroon Trail. William Beebe. Atlnntic Monthly. January. 



The latter essay is the first of a series of six relating to 

 general aspects of life in British Guiana. Perhaps three-quar- 

 ters of the scientific notes and an equal amount of the field work 

 and laboratory investigation are too unconnected and incomplete 

 for publication at the present time. But a number of subjects 

 were finished and these have been combined in a volume which 

 ^'all appear before March 1. At the suggestion of Prof. Osljorn 

 this has been called "Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana," and 

 is considered as the joint production of Beebe, Hartley and 

 Howes, with an introduction by Colonel Roosevelt. My own 

 share in it has been of the nature of general ecological studies 

 and of young birds. Mr. Hartley worked more particularly on 

 the development of embryos, and Mr. Howes confined his atten- 

 tion to the life histories of social wasps and bees. 



As a resume of the work of the year, I offer the table of 

 contents of this volume: 



PART I, BY WILLIAM BEEBE. 



I — Establishment of the Station. 

 H — Historical Bartica. 

 ni — Early Naturalists at Bartica. 

 IV— The Gen^ ^al Field of Work. 

 V — The Open Clearing. 

 VI— The Jungle. 



VII — The Bird Life of Bartica District. 

 VIII — List of the Birds of Bartica District. 

 IX — Akawai Indian and Colonial Names of Birds and 



Mammals. 

 X — Methods of Research. 

 XI — Ornithological Discoveries. 

 XII — Notes on Hoatzin Nestlings. 

 XIII — The Homes of Toucans. 

 XIV — Notes on the Grey-backed Trumpeter. 

 XV — The Tinamou of Bartica District. 

 XVI — A Day in Kalacoon Compound. 

 XVII — Nesting Seasons and Broods of Tropical Birds. 

 XVIII— The Alligators of Guiana. 



