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THE EED HILLS. 
April \9thi 1848. — Mr. Johnston’s information 
respecting the district in Portland inhabited by the 
Indian Cony, showed that two conditions were 
necessary to constitute a befitting locality for it. 
Surface rocks, replete with cellular hiding-places, 
and abundance of succulent roots, fruits, and herbage. 
Our limestone hills bordering the plain of St. 
Catherine, are all well-marked with the first requi- 
site, the cellular hiding-places ; but it is only the 
Red-hills that supply the necessary exuberance and 
diversity of vegetable food : — there alone the Indian 
Cony is common. In the limestone districts, defi- 
cient in moisture and herbage, it is scarce, if not 
altogether unknown. Fruit trees, such as oranges, 
star-apples, nesberries, and Avogado-pears, together 
with plums, guavas, anonas, and plantains, abound on 
the Red-hills, and tuberous and farinaceous vegetables 
adult, disjointed, In spirits, in excellent condition, but wanting the 
central portion of the trunk. 
Young. 
Adult. 
Inches. 
Inches. 
Total length, including tail 
16 0 
18-0 (?) 
Length of head _ _ _ 
3 0 
3-5 
From muzzle to orifice of ear 
2-6 
2-8 
„ to front angle of eye - 
1 -5 nearly 
1-6 
Length of ear (inner side) - 
- 
10 
„ (outer side) - 
- 
•66 
Width of ear _ _ - 
- 
*7 nearly 
Circumference of body 
9-0 
Length of tail _ - - 
2 0 
2-1 
Diameter of tail at base 
- 
•5 
„ at tip 
- 
•2 
Fore sole to tip of longest claw 
1-5 
1-6 
Hind sole „ 
2-6 
2*8 
