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royal palm, Jamaica dogwood, manchineel, mahogany, mangrove, Caracara Eagle, 

 White-crowned Pigeon, Zenaida Dove, Quail Dove, Bahama Vireo (1), Bahama 

 Honey-creeper, camphor, coffee, banana, pineapple, eggfruit, cashew nut, lemon, 

 citron, lime, oranges, ramie and tobacco. 



With irrigation, the arid, semitropical, St. Lucas area is developing large 

 possibilities, but as yet the list of its products, as well as those of the Tamauli- 

 pan area in southeastern Texas, is quite incomplete. 



The giant cactus, desert acacia, palo verdes and fan-leaf palm are charac- 

 teristic of the former, while in the latter, the jaguar, ocelot, armadillo, some 

 tropical cats, and many tropical birds are found. 



SUGGESTIONS 



Learn to spell every new name in this exercise, and look up its meaning, location 

 and history. Make a list of the crops and fruits which thrive in your locality. 



If you live in a large city, try to see as many different kinds of vegetables, nuts 

 and fruits as possible. 



FROM YOUNG OBSERVERS 



In the year of 191 2, when I was in the seventh grade, I became very much 

 interested in the study of birds. My father also was interested in the subject, 

 and so he and I made a bird-house. We thought that the birds would like to 

 have it located in some high place, and so we put it up on one of the high 

 peaks of our barn. 



One afternoon I saw a little robin carrying an angle-worm in its mouth. It 

 walked along the sidewalk near my home for about twenty minutes, enjoying 

 the prospect of its lunch, I suppose. But, while doing this another Robin 

 came up, and he evidently liked what the other one had, and, taking the 

 liberty, he helped himself to part of it. Well, of course they would quarrel 

 about it, and things were very exciting for a time; but, as the other one found 

 another large worm on the sidewalk, they flew away quite contented, and I 

 have never seen them, that I know of, from that day to this. 



When I was a little girl I was not very strong, and was sick in bed a great 

 deal of the time. There was a tree across the road from my home which had a 

 Robin's nest in it. This little nest was occupied for three summers by a family 

 of Robins, whom I could watch from my bed. They were quite tame for 

 Robins with me, as I fed and watered them for a long time; but one rather 

 cold autumnal day I saw them flying south, and, as I watched them, I wondered 

 if they were ever coming back again, for at that time many birds were 

 migrating south. When the fourth summer came, I watched for a long time 

 to see if my friends -were not coming back, but they did not. They had evi- 

 dently located in some other place to have their home, and, strange to say, 

 no other family has ever been there since my little friends left me. — Marian 

 Enid Schmidt (aged 13 ), 7th Grade, Chelsea, Mich. 



