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of form, of wild untrammeled tropical luxuriance mingled 
with carefully selected and grouped exotic forms that my 
eyes swam and my brain reeled. I gazed at times in a state 
bordering on positive stupefaction, at others my emotions 
were so overpowering that I could not trust myself to speak. 
Miss Francis confessed to me this evening that she was 
similarly overcome and her brother said that she spoke 
scarcely a word all the time she was in the garden and be¬ 
haved so strangely that he feared she was ill. How can 
scenes which awake such emotions be described. It is simply 
presumptuous to attempt to write about them at all. 
In the garden we saw Margarops densirostris , Elaenia 
martinica . Quiscalus inflexirostris , Euohonia flavifrons , 
Coereba. mart inica , Bel Iona exilts , Eu lampis jugular is , 
Eulampis holosericens , Pyrrhulegra noils and Thryothorus 
martinicensis . 
Elaenia is a curious bird with little of the 
manners of our Flycatchers, very active and alert, taking 
short flights and hopping from twig to twig, and when perched 
rolling the head from side to side and bobbing it up and down. 
It has two very musical calls — one very like the phoebe 
note of our Sayiornis , the other two resembling the higher 
notes of the song of Vireo solitarius . Chapman says this 
bird feeds on berries. 
The only real song that we heard in this garden, 
however, was that of the Thryothorus. It was a bright, 
