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CONTENTS. 
Mountain Gardens. Process of preparing them. Plants 
cultivated. Cocoes. Plantains. Yam. Ginger. Log-hut. 
Horse-eye Bean. Superstition. Voices of early Birds 
151—154 
Phcenix Park. Description of a Jamaica House. Great 
Hall. Jalousies. Polished Floor. Curious Process. Garden 
of ornamental Plants. Humming-birds. Chestnut Mastiff- 
Bat. Its Habits ; in freedom ; in captivity. Bats crepus- 
cular rather than nocturnal. AmpuUaria’s Eggs. Lucifu- 
gous Insects. Centipede nursing. Scorpions. Spiders. 
Phrynus. Myriapoda - - - - 155 — 166 
Birds and Flowers. Tropical Birds not silent. Tropical 
Flowers not scentless. Glass-eye Merle. Solitaire. Shrike. 
Cotton-tree Sparrow. Hopping Dick. Flycatchers. So- 
ciality of Birds. Swallows, Tichicro. Banana-bird. Blue 
Quit. Vervain Humming-bird. Mocking bird. ISTocturnal 
Melody. Water Thrushes. Wood Thrush. Minor Songsters. 
Wild Doves. Mountain Doves. Plaintive voices of the 
Whitewing and Peadove. Fragrant Flowers. Prevalence 
of Clove odour. Night-blowing Cereus - 166 — 177 
The Chigoe Flea. Burrows in the human Feet. Negroes 
skilful in extracting it. Description. Symptoms of its 
presence - - _ . . I 77 — 173 
The Smooth Sheath-Claw. Its appearance. Changes of 
Hue. Singular Voice. Nocturnal activity. Power of 
walking on reversed Surfaces. Skin and Scales. Sloughing. 
Beproduction of the Tail. Phenomena of the Process. Eggs. 
Young. Food ----- 178 — 186 
The Pond Turtle. Pond in the Forest. Negro Water-girls. 
Turtles sitting on Logs. Mode of trapping them. Manners 
of a Young One - _ - . 186 — 190 
Curious Fishes. Sparus? Chmtodon - - 190 — 191 
Fig-Trees. Singular one at Bluefields. Net-like union of 
Roots. Hypothesis of its growth. “The Scotchman em- 
bracing the Creole.” A Tree upon Stilts - 191 — 194 
The Ant-Lion. Bluefields Mill-house. Ant-lion’s Pits. In- 
stincts and Habits. Ascalaphus - - 194 — 197 
