thing may age. The ean individuals will measure sicteatt 
inches from tip to tip.— Whales and porpoises, are comparatively 
numerous in ne surrounding seas. 
Of Birds there are twenty-nine or thirty species. They are 
distributed probably in the following proportions among the dif 
ferent orders, as clsssified by Swainson. 1. Of a = tores, 
one species, a small owl 2. Of Insessores, fourtee fteen 
es. The Dentirostral species ae eleven or mn I 
not know of any Conirostral, . enuirostral. There are 
two Fissirostral, a kungfisher and a ages ; and one. ce reagent 
asmall parrot. 8. Of the Natatores there are six species; 0 
that be a sea-duck, the rest gulls, one of which is the © Phaton 
4 OF Grallatores, one vs one sand-piper. 
Rasores, two Columbide, the Pulinopus cyanovirens, ae the Car- 
Pe 
toa few species. At least two species of turtles are found in 
waters, the Chelonia mydas and C. imbricata. 'They visit the 
‘atsbshited Aut Group to deposit their eggs. The so-called 
“tortoise-shell” forms an export of some value. ‘There are sev- 
eral species of the Lacerta group, and these constitute the main 
body of the island Reptilia. We have one variety of what I 
suppose may be an Jguana; and also a Gecko. 
need ea remark that the varieties of Fishes are very 
numerous ;—and more than this I will not attempt to report. 
A fresh- water eel is an object of great veneration and fear. A 
species of harmless shark is very abundant. A large sting-ray, 
(probably a soe co : poles _ coral flats and is ae occasion. 
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