XVI CONTENTS. 



Mountain Gardens. Process of preparing them. Plants 

 cultivated. Cocoes. Plantains. Yam. Ginger. Log-hut. 

 Horse-eye Bean. Superstition. Voices of early Birds 



151—154 



Phcenix Park. Description of a Jamaica House. Great 

 Hall. Jalousies. Polished Floor. Curious Process. Garden 

 of ornamental Plants. Humming-birds. Chestnut MastifT- 

 Bat. Its Habits ; in freedom ; in captivity. Bats crepus- 

 cular rather than nocturnal. Ampullaria's Eggs. Lucifu- 

 gous Insects. Centipede nursing. Scorpions. Spiders. 

 Phrynus. Myriapoda - - - - 155 — 166 



Br.RDS AND Flowers. Tropical Birds not silent. Tropical 

 Flowers not scentless. Glass-eye Merle. Solitaire. Shrike. 

 Cotton-tree Sparrow. Hopping Dick. Flycatchers. So- 

 ciality of Birds. Swallows. Tichicro. Banana-bird. Blue 

 Quit. Vervain Humming-bird. Mocking bird. Nocturnal 

 Melody. Water Thrushes. Wood Thrush. ]SIinor Songsters. 

 Wild Doves. Mountain Doves. Plaintive voices of the 

 Whitewing and Peadove. Fragrant Flowers. Prevalence 

 of Clove odour. Night-blowing Cereus - 166 — 177 



The Chigoe Flea. Burrows in the human Feet. Negroes 

 skilful in extracting it. Description. Symptoms of its 

 presence ..... 177 — 173 



The Smooth Sheath-Claw. Its appearance. Changes of 

 Hue. Singular Voice. Nocturnal activity. Power of 

 walking on reversed Surfaces. Skin and Scales. Sloughing. 

 Beproduction of the Tail. Phenomena of the Process. Eggs. 

 Young. Food - - - - - 178—186 



The Pond Turtle. Pond in the Forest. Negro Water-girls. 

 Turtles sitting on Logs. Mode of trapping them. Manners 

 of a Young One .... 186—190 



Curious Fishes. Sparus? Chtetodon - - 190 — 191 



Fig-Trees. Singular one at Bluefields. Net-like union of 

 Roots. Hypothesis of its growth. " The Scotchman em- 

 bracing the Creole." A Tree upon Stilts - 191—194 



The Ant-Lion. Bluefields Mill-house. Ant-lion's Pits. In- 

 stincts and Habits. Ascalaphus - - 194 — 197 



