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there were many myriapods &s well as histerids and 

 other beetles* I did a little beating in the small 

 branches and in the shrubbery along the road into 

 a banana plantation and got some good things Left 

 for home early so that we could put the net up over 

 the car# Emptied the net twice, once at Morant Bay and 

 once at Kingston. Good catches each time. We will 

 return to this tree, probably Monday. 



Feb. 7. Today was a day of rest. I arose late, about 



10 AM (the rest had all finished breakfast) and spent 

 the rest of the morning sorting and packing the catch 

 of the last two days. Caught up on my journal which 

 was three or four days behind. Wrote letters in the 

 afternoon and went to bed early. 



Feb. 8. Again Mrs Wooler had a large lunch put up for us 

 and we started for the silk-cotton tree. We had for- 

 gotten to provide water coconuts so inquired along the 

 road and were directed to Clifton Hill. We supposed 

 that we had been directed to the overseer f s house but 

 not so. We found ourselves at the great house and 

 evidently mistaken for tramps by the lady of the house, 

 a Mrs. Pengelly. She watched us but didn f t intend to 

 talk with us until it came out that we were the two 

 gentlemen from the States who were staying with Mrs. 

 Wooler. Then all was well and we were invited into 

 the house and shown all courtesies. Our coconuts soon 

 arrived and we gave the boy a shilling for the nine 

 that he had knocked down from the trees. When we got 

 to the tree we found a party of blacks loading bananas 

 but we all went about our businesses. The trunk gave 

 us some more of the large cerambycids and another 

 Chalcolepidius, in the chips I got a lot more of the 

 myriapod. Found plenty of dryopids in the Indian Cony 

 and on the other shore we located a very large and very 

 decayed tree. It was so soft that one could slash into 

 it twelve to fourteen inches with the cutlass. We picked 

 away at it and got a few specimens of Hacraspis tetra- 

 dactyla L. and two species of Rhyssodidae, the latter 

 near to the center. Myriapods and pseudoscorpions were 

 also present. Nearby there was an old coconut stump 

 from which we took a beautiful green roach, Panchlora , 

 sp. In beating a hedgerow, I took a few good things. 

 Yifhile I was beating a long-tailed hummingbird came 

 to within three feet of me and seemed very curious 

 about what I was doing. I could almost have netted 

 him. I saw my first tody in the tree over the banana 

 pen. A small but very brilliantly colored bird, some- 

 thing like a sparrow. As it grew dark and we had eaten 

 what was left of our lunch, we put up the sheet and 



