Cedar Keys 
habits, frequently coming like robins to door- 
sills for crumbs — a noble fellow, beloved by 
everybody. Wild geese are abundant in winter, 
associated with brant, some species of which 
I have never seen in the North. Also great 
flocks of robins, mourning doves, bluebirds, 
and the delightful brown thrashers. A large 
number of the smaller birds are fine singers. 
Crows, too, are here, some of them cawing with 
a foreign accent. The common bob-white quail 
I observed as far south as middle Georgia. 
Lime Key, sketched on the opposite page, is 
a fair specimen of the Florida keys on this part 
of the coast. A fragment of cactus, Opuntia , 
sketched on another page , 1 is from the above- 
named key, and is abundant there. The fruit, 
an inch in length, is gathered, and made into 
a sauce, of which some people are fond. This 
species forms thorny, impenetrable thickets. 
One joint that I measured was fifteen inches 
long. 
The mainland of Florida is less salubrious 
1 Of the original journal. 
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