40 A NATURE WOOING. 



them as follows: "Catesby's ground doves are also 

 here in abundance; they are remarkably beautiful 

 and their soft and plaintive cooing perfectly en- 

 chanting. 



How chaste the dove ! ' Never known to violate the con- 

 jugal contract.' 



She flees the seats of envy and strife, and seeks the retired 

 paths of peace."* 



Among the hard woods growing in the edges of the 

 "low hammocks/ 7 I noted the following northern 

 forms: Bitter-nut, Hicoria minima Marsh; sweet- 

 gum, Liquidambar styraciflua L., and the wild black 

 cherry, Prunus serotina Ehrh. ISTone of these, how- 

 ever, seem to reach the size they do in the north. 



Near the edge of the town we saw a native woman 

 busily engaged in doing the family washing. The 

 clothes are dipped in a tub of water, then placed on a 

 block of wood and pounded with a club. 



In the afternoon I went again to the old orange or- 

 chard in search of insects. A little black and brown 

 ground cricket, Nemobius ambitiosus Scudd., I found 

 to be frequent among dead leaves and short grass 

 along hedge rows and borders of the forest. It is 

 smaller and more handsome than our common north- 

 ern form, N. fasciatus vittaius. The face is jet black, 

 with a narrow, widtish-yellow transverse line just be- 

 low the base of the antennae, while the femora bear 



*Loc. cit., p. 8. 



