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KILMARNOCK. 
The number of dead and bleached shells that lay 
on the road hereabout, induced me to search for 
living ones ; and I spent an hour or two in the 
examination. Nor was the search unsuccessful ; 
beneath the loose stones on the hill-side, a little 
within the forest, were several species in considerable 
abundance, some of which I had not at that time 
met with. Among the most conspicuous was Helix 
JamaicensiSf which I now saw alive for the first 
time; the surface of the foot was, in most of the 
specimens, infested by a minute species of mite in 
great numbers. This fine shell was still rare. A large 
flattened species of much value {Helix Sfengleriand) 
occurred more numerously ; Cylindrella sanguinea 
and cylindrus were abundant ; and several species of 
AcJiatina were found sparingly, such as the lovely 
A. Philippianai A. venusta. A, Phillipsiif and others. 
The zigzag avenue of Bamboos afforded a grateful 
shadow as we descended the mountain ; and the dis- 
covery of a nest of the wild Guinea-fowl, with twenty 
eggs, was an incident which enlivened a peculiarly 
toilsome part of the journey, the passage through a 
long but narrow water-course, now dry, filled with 
masses of loose slippery stone, almost impassible for 
a horse. In the midst of a thick tuft of grass, within 
the wood beside this rocky path, the Guinea-hen had 
deposited her numerous eggs. At length we arrived 
at the bottom of the Cotta wood, and were again 
sheltered from the burning sun till we arrived at 
Content. 
