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of their eyes contracting to a line in daylight. As 

 this little creature runs about, it frequently stops, 

 and creeps stealthily, with its chin and belly brought 

 into contact with the ground, while it whisks its tail 

 from side to side very briskly and repeatedly, exactly 

 as a cat will often do. 



Between the middle and end of February a good 

 many little eggs were brought to me, covered with 

 a white calcareous shell, of regularly oval form, 

 and exactly resembling a bird's eggs in miniature, 

 measuring y^y inch by -^q. Some of these were found 

 in old thatch, and other rubbish, others in crevices 

 of boards, slightly concealed. After a week or two 

 they began to become discoloured, and at length black- 

 ish. About the middle of March I opened one, and 

 found the young of this Pallette-tip alive, and per- 

 fectly ready for exclusion, so as to run actively 

 about when freed. In form, colour, and markings it 

 precisely agreed with the adult, but was particularly 

 bright. On the 2nd of April I found in the box 

 another, very active, and the egg-shell empty with 

 one extremity thrown off, but not otherwise shat- 

 tered. Between that time and the middle of April, 

 several more were born. I have also found at the 

 end of May, several eggs with the young perfectly 

 formed, in the cavities of dried Termites' nest. 



In the gizzard of a Whitebelly Dove {Peristera 

 Jamaicensis), which my servant was skinning, he 

 discovered a small egg, which he brought to me. On 

 opening it I found a perfectly formed Gecko of this 

 same species ; yet, strange to say, the integument 

 was not shelly but tough and membranous, of a dirty 



