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BLUEFIELDS. 
of their eyes contracting to a line in daylight. As 
this little creature runs about, it frequently stops, 
and creeps stealthily, with its chin and belly brought 
into contact with the ground, while it whisks its tail 
from side to side very briskly and repeatedly, exactly 
as a cat will often do. 
Between the middle and end of February a good 
many little eggs were brought to me, covered with 
a white calcareous shell, of regularly oval form, 
and exactly resembling a bird’s eggs in miniature, 
measuring inch by y^^. Some of these were found 
in old thatch, and other rubbish, others in crevices 
of boards, slightly concealed. After a week or two 
they began to become discoloured, and at length black- 
ish. About the middle of March I opened one, and 
found the young of this Pallette-tip alive, and per- 
fectly ready for exclusion, so as to run actively 
about when freed. In form, colour, and markings it 
precisely agreed with the adult, but was particularly 
bright. On the 2nd of April I found in the box 
another, very active, and the egg-shell empty with 
one extremity thrown off, but not otherwise shat- 
tered. Between that time and the middle of April, 
several more were born. I have also found at the 
end of May, several eggs with the young perfectly 
formed, in the cavities of dried Termites’ nest. 
In the gizzard of a Whitebelly Dove {Peristera 
Jamaicensis), which my servant was skinning, he 
discovered a small egg, which he brought to me. On 
opening it I found a perfectly formed Gecko of this 
same species ; yet, strange to say, the integument 
was not shelly but tough and membranous, of a dirty 
