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On the 21st of October I bad found adhering to 

 the inside of the door of the cage, an egg of a short- 

 oval form, shelly in texture, and of a pure white hue. 

 It adhered to the wood by a flattened base, as if it 

 had been deposited in a soft state ; when I saw it 

 the top had been slightly crushed in, probably by 

 accident ; and this appeared to have been fatal to it, 

 for its contents gradually dried up. I conjectured at 

 the time that this egg had been deposited by the 

 Gecko, but I could not be quite certain, because one 

 or two Anoles were kept in the same cage. But on 

 the 21st of February, as I was riding to Savanna- 

 le-Mar, and passing a large Fig-tree that overhangs 

 the sea-shore at Cave, I observed in a little crevice in 

 the trunk, — or rather in one produced by the 

 singular anastomosing of its supra-terrestrial roots, — 

 several eggs. On dismounting I found they were 

 about eight in number, and evidently of the same 

 kind as the one above noticed. Their form was 

 irregularly oval, round, or rondo-triangular, all flat- 

 tened, very much resembling in size, shape, and 

 colour, those comfits called lemon-drops : their great- 

 est diameter was about half an inch. They were 

 shelly, but the shell was thin and very brittle ; yet 

 it was evident that they had been soft when laid, for 

 they adhered to each other, and the side of one was, 

 as it were, let i?i to that of its neiglibour ; and at the 

 base of some was a thick mass of shelly matter, as if 

 a semifluid substance had run down, and then 

 hardened. That all had not been deposited at once 

 seemed apparent, from their diverse degrees of ma- 

 turity ; some containing only a white cream or soft 



