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tailed Hawk.’’ These soon soared aloft, and disappeared. 
Here and there, also, was a hungry eet watching to catch 
the offal. Such a deyeneaed = feathered g 
Hawks, Crows, Buzzards, Cranes, Curlews, etc. 
It should ie cae that all of the pe cited Pectel shrubs 
and treeshave fleshy fruits and are eaten by birds. It is more than 
probable that birds, especially migratory birds, feeding on the 
fruits of these kinds of tropical shrubs, planted them for ages 
gradually further and ae north, and at present the species 
have adapted themselves to the more northern environment as 
far as the Halifax Riv 
ytona the character of the coastwise hammock 
etween 
that part of the State and the ‘‘scrub.’”  Garberia fruticosa was 
the to 
(Serenoa repens). The common spruce-pine of the typical 
“scrub” was replaced by another form of uncertain relationship. 
We w 
be solved. a vere meee ins northern limit of the natural 
ontie (Zamia pee William 
aldwin while ae ie. Sasi lagoons from St. Aug- 
ustine a pe over a century ago says: 
“The evening proving ce we were unable to recross 
Matanza river; and took up our abode for the night, in a 
ancient and venerable oie erected by the old Fish, who wa: 
the original proprietor of the island Anastasia. He wasa ae 
i k; and m: 
Grove in the world. Some trees still remain that are 30 fe 
4 Reliquiae Baldwini: (1843). 
