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in the cane fields. The planters say that it has not 
seriously diminished the numbers of the cane rats but it 
has destroyed about all the lizards and ground-ne sting birds 
and poultry-raising has become almost impossible. But 
the worst results nil ich have followed the introduction of 
this noxious animal have been the great increase of two 
species of insect which bore into and destroy the sugar 
cane and which the lizards and birds formerly kept in check. 
Many of the planters fear that the sugar raising will 
ultimately have to be abandoned. 
Monkeys of two species are said to abound. 
