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Passing from birds to mammals, we found that where ham- 
mocks were within a mile, more or | on either side of the 
mocks to the canal as water alter having a the fruits in the 
hammock. T: 
trees of this category. When the neighboring hammocks were 
only on one side of the canal these trees were only on the corres- 
ponding ee where there were no hammocks nearby the trees 
were wantin: 
he wind- iciabaead plants growing on these sand-banks 
ost prominently represented by the ee bushes 
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we 
age of water. We sailed Pace as islands of water- 
of the former natural surface of the land and the base of the 
artificial bank. 
The first night out we anchored in the southern end of Lake 
Worth. Th osquito band from the nearby Hypoluxo—not 
d an 
of the “scrub” sees were destitute of spruce-pine, a conditi n 
growth of p : 
unobstructedly over the gradually sloping dunes, have brought 
about an abnormal! development of the pine trees, spreading 
