The Zoologist — Nuvembeu, 18ti9. 1925 



Pei'nanibuco. Did not land, as a boat for us both would have cost 

 tliiity sliilliogs, and we coidd only have had two or three hours on 

 shore. 



August 28. Landed at Bahia, and had four hours' ramble and 

 scramble ; captured four species of butterflies, two of beetles, some 

 shells, a very beautiful frog, and some beautiful spiders. Bahia 

 gives evidence of being a good collecting-ground, and no doubt far 

 richer if one could have got into the interior. The sample of tropical 

 forest life seen here makes us long to get to Minas ; but by the time 

 we reach that place we shall be penniless, as we heai the expenses 

 of land-travelling are enormous : still we are determined to do our 

 best. One of the spiders caught here is ver}' interesting ; its nest 

 placed in a rose-bush and formed beautifully of rose-leaves, and the 

 spider itself very difficult to discern. Some of the spiders obtained 

 here are perfectly lovely, beyond everything I have ever conceived a 

 s])id.er could be. 



Rio de Janeiro. All well and safely landed, after a pleasant voyage, 

 and the kindest treatment from the captain (Reeks) and every one of 

 the officers. 



September 9. * * * * We have made our arrangements and 

 are going up the river Doce, and to work to the interior of Menes 

 Geraus ? There are no inhabitants beyond Espiritode Santos. All 

 the naturalists here say it is the richest coUecling-ground in Brazil, 

 but all are afraid to go up the river on account of fever and Indians ; 

 but we are off" and have no fears. It will cost us about .£30 to get to 

 Santos, from whence we must get up in canoes. 



Please direct letters here to the British Consul, who has promised 

 to forward them. I will svrile again when we get to the Doce. 



Yours truly, 



H. Rogers. 



To Rev. O. P.-Cambridge. 



Notes on the Mammalia of Norfolk (continued from S. S. 553). — Polecat. Tliis is 

 geUing scarcer each year in ibis neighbourhood : two examples only have passed 

 under uiy examiiialiou since my last notes, but I have also heard of two or three 

 mhers being trapped by keepers; and during the first week of November, 1867, a very 

 large male was exhibited at a dealer's stall in the Yarmouth Market ; it had been 

 killed somewhere in the neighbourhood. 



Stoat. In January, 1808, two stoats were sent me, one almost entirely white and 

 the other in its brown dress, without the slightest indication of change. I bad always 



