the Termites of Africa and other hot Climates . 161 
meafures only eight-tenths of an Inch from tip to tip (tab. X. 
fig. io. 
The next kind of nefts, built by another fpecies of this 
genus, the Ter me s arborum , have very little refemblance to the 
former in fhape or fubftance. Thefe are generally fpherical or 
oval, and built in trees (* 4 ). Sometimes they arefeated between 
the arms and the items of trees, and very frequently may be 
feen furrounding the branch of a tree at the height of feventy 
or eighty feet; and (though but rarely of fo large a fize) as 
big as a very great fugar cafkds) ( i6 ). 
They are compofed of fmall particles of wood and the various 
gums and juices of trees, combined with, perhaps, thofe of the 
animals, and worked by thofe little induftrious creatures into a 
pafte, and fo moulded into innumerable little cells of very dif- 
ferent and irregular forms, which afford no amufing variety and 
nothing curious, but the immenfe quantity of inhabitants, young 
and old, with which they are at all times crouded ; on which ac- 
count they are fought for in order to feed young fowls, and efpe- 
daily for the rearing of Turkies. Thefe nefts are very corn- 
pad:, and fo ftrongly attached to the boughs on which they are 
fixed, that there is no detaching them but by cutting them in 
pieces, or fawing off the branch ; and they will fuftain the 
force of a tornado as long as the tree on which they are fixed. 
(h) The colour of thefe nefts, like that of the roofed turrets, is black, from 
which, and their irregular furface and orbicular fhape, they have been called 
Negro Heads by our firft writers on the Carribbee Hands, and by the French, 
Tetes des Negres , See hunter’s Evelyn’s silva, p. 17. 
I have -never been able to difcover what author Mr. evelyn alludes to in this 
mention of the Negro Heads. 
O5) long’s Jamaica, vol. III. p. 887. 
( l6 ) sloane’s Jamaica, vol. II, p. 221. and fequel. 
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