280 TROPICAL WILD LIFE IN BRITISH GUIANA 



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Photo hij ir. D. 

 FIG. 93. CATERPILLAR OF SPHINX MOTH 



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Julv 9t]i 



-Big brood at evening lights, of small, white-spotted June- 

 bugs. Nocturnal skipper at lights in Kalacoon. 



-Bellbirds appear on Bartica road. Brood of tiny red jungle 

 butterflies. 



-Morphos along trails become fewer and very ragged. Large 

 colony of lesser green sand hornets at height of nesting 

 on plantation road. 



-New broods of sphinx larvae in compound. First big chorus 

 of marine toads heard. 



-Quadrille wren's eggs one-quarter incubated. 



-I-ast white-necked crake's nest and two eggs found far out 

 Convict Trail. ^lany pairs of small, short-horned grass- 

 hoppers mating. 



-Smallest kingfishers feeding one young. 



T'ive new species of butterflies in rubber clearing, especially 

 Jitnonia. Third day without rain, heat so great at noon 

 that twenty bats creep out from eave holes and hang 

 outside. Two storms in evening; first ones. 

 Spotted sandpiper with diseased ovary tissues, shot on the 

 shore. 



