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BLUEFIELDS. 
On the 21st of October I bad found adhering to 
the inside of the door of the cage, an egg of a short- 
oval form, shelly in texture, and of a pure white hue. 
It adhered to the wood by a flattened base, as if it 
had been deposited in a soft state ; when I saw it 
the top had been slightly crushed in, probably by 
accident ; and this appeared to have been fatal to it, 
for its contents gradually dried up. I conjectured at 
the time that this egg had been deposited by the 
Gecko, but I could not be quite certain, because one 
or two Anoles were kept in the same cage. But on 
the 21st of February, as I was riding to Savanna- 
le-Mar, and passing a large Fig-tree that overhangs 
the sea-shore at Cave, I observed in a little crevice in 
the trunk, — or rather in one produced by the 
singular anastomosing of its supra-terrestrial roots, — 
several eggs. On dismounting I found they were 
about eight in number, and evidently of the same 
kind as the one above noticed. Their form was 
irregularly oval, round, or rondo-triangular, all flat- 
tened, very much resembling in size, shape, and 
colour, those comfits called lemon-drops : their great- 
est diameter was about half an inch. They were 
shelly, but the shell was thin and very brittle ; yet 
it was evident that they had been soft when laid, for 
they adhered to each other, and the side of one was, 
as it were, let in to that of its neighbour ; and at the 
base of some was a thick mass of shelly matter, as if 
a semifluid substance had run down, and then 
hardened. That all had not been deposited at once 
seemed apparent, from their diverse degrees of ma- 
turity ; some containing only a white cream or soft 
