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Echimys trinitatis. Long-tailed Piloui. — Otherwise called 

 the "No-tail Piloui." The fact that some specimens of this 

 species are found to have no tail, which others possess, has led 

 the natives to give to it the second name, under the very excusable 

 belief that it was another species. I understand they are eaten 

 with relish. 



Coassus nemorivagus. Deer. — I procured one pair of the horns 

 of this deer, which were said to be the largest ever seen ; they 

 measure 5| in. This animal is very plentiful on the borders of 

 the high woods, and does an immense amount of damage to young 

 plantations of cocoa, nutmegs, &c. They are very wary, and 

 though I heard them, and constantly saw their fresh spoor, I 

 never even once got a snap- shot, and I was perpetually on the 

 alert to obtain a complete skin and skull. Very few are ever 

 killed, as they simply scorn the mongrel dogs, who cannot live 

 with them for even a mile, and generally refuse to take up their 

 fresh trail. 



There are other points of zoological interest perhaps worthy 

 of note ; but, as Mr. Eider Haggard remarks, " that is another 

 story!" 



