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presently proved this assertion by pointing out one which 
was sitting on a wet stone under a projecting shelf of 
the ledge, piping incessantly. It was a tiny creature, 
less than half-an-inch in length; above, wood-brown with 
dark mottling, beneath pale yellowish with a bright 
sulphur yellow throat. Its toes were supplied with minute 
round sucking discs. (This description is taken from a 
specimen which Mr. Lichfold caught in another place later 
in the day and which we are keeping alive in a tumbler, 
to the sides of which it clings virith ease. The one we 
saw tnis morning eluded capture but was unquestionably of 
the same species.) 
Our next adventure was with a large Manicou 
(Oppossum). We heard something which I took to be a bird 
making a scolding noise near the path. After watching 
and listening for a moment we saw some bushes shake and 
presently a gray mass moving among them. Shortly after¬ 
wards it came out into plain view on |aJlong branch which 
it followed for eight or ten feet, occasionally stopping 
and looking down at us with a quizzical expression, its 
large eyes very wide open, the ears twitching a little 
now and then. Next it climbed directly upward thirty feet 
or more, following a slender liane, moving slowly and using 
its fore paws like human hands, often testing its hold before 
