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Chap. T. 
belonging to the same genus, hop about the grass, en- 
livening the place with a few musical notes. The 
Carashue (Mimus) also then resumes its mellow, black- 
bird-like song ; and two or three species of humming- 
bird, none of which however are peculiar to the 
district, flit about from tree to tree. On the other 
hand, the little blue and yellow-striped lizards, which 
abound amongst the herbage during the scorching 
heats of midday, retreat towards this hour to their 
hiding-places ; together with the day-flying insects and 
the numerous campo butterflies. Some of these latter 
resemble greatly our English species found in heathy 
places, namely, a fritillary, Argynnis (Euptoieta) He- 
gesia, and two smaller kinds, which are deceptively 
like the little Nemeobius Lucina. After sunset the 
air becomes delightfully cool and fragrant with fruits 
and flowers. The nocturnal animals then come forth. 
A monstrous hairy spider, five inches in expanse 
(Mygale Blondii), of a brown colour with yellowish 
lines along its stout legs — which is very common 
here, inhabiting broad tubular galleries smoothly lined 
with silken web — may be then caught on the watch at 
the mouth of its burrow. It is only seen at night, 
and I think does not wander far from its den ; the 
gallery is about two inches in diameter, and runs in 
a slanting direction, about two feet from the surface 
of the soil. As soon as it is night, swarms of goat- 
suckers suddenly make their appearance, wheeling 
about in a noiseless, ghostly manner, in chase of night- 
flying insects. They sometimes descend and settle on 
a low branch, or even on the pathway close to where 
