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leaves of palmettoes. White porcelaneous Liguus, 

 with bands of vivid green, their long sluglike 

 bodies and tentacles fully projected, were busy 

 rasping with armored tongues the smooth bark of 

 the gumbo-limbos. The pretty Cepolis supertexta, 

 black, brown, and yellow, were here abundant, 

 and a host of smaller mollusks, alive and in perfect 

 condition, were easily taken. Many birds kept 

 up a chatter or song but in the thick foliage could 

 not always be seen. We did, however, catch 

 glimpses of the supercilious woodpecker {Centurus 

 super ciliarus) , the Cuban green woodpecker {Zip- 

 hidiopicus percussus), and the white-eyed vireo (V. 

 griseus), the Cuban grackle (Haloquiscalus gund- 

 lachi). The most strikingly colored bird noticed 

 here, barring the lovely little todi, is the Cuban 

 trogon (Priotelus temnurus) . Like the todi he is a 

 well-finished color study from nature's studio. The 

 top of his head is metallic purple, the entire back 

 metallic green, the under parts pale gray (a little 

 lighter on the throat) , the posterior belly and under- 

 tail coverets scarlet; the primaries of the wing and 

 part of the secondaries are marked by white bars; 

 the outer tail-feathers are also tipped with broad 

 bands of white, the combination giving to the 



