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many, if not most, of these migrants are destroyed 

 by enemies while on the march, and the majority 

 escaping such an end fail to find any hammock and 

 perish; but in the course of time some — even but 

 one — must reach the goal. Thus they have crossed 

 easily an open space in my grounds (formerly pine 

 land) and become completely established among 

 my cultivated trees a hundred feet from my ham- 

 mock. Dr. Hiram Byrd informs me that when he 

 bought his place in Lower Dade County there were 

 Liguus on the citrus and other trees about his 

 house which presumably had come from a ham- 

 mock a quarter of a mile away. 



There is something very courageous about these 

 little fellows who leave their sheltered homes, 

 their food, and companions and set forth to wander 

 in the hostile pine woods in an effort to find a new 

 hammock. They forsake all and risk all in 

 answering the call of one of the strongest animal 

 instincts — the founding of new colonies, the ex- 

 tension of their race. 



Cuba has been occupied from one end to the 

 other with handsome Liguus, though it is probable 

 that none of them equal some of our forms in vivid 

 coloring. Our entire stock has doubtless been 



