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174 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
New Mempers.—Mr. R. J. Geddes was elected an ordin- 
ary, and Masters Eastway and Hamblin, junior, members of 
the Club. 
Honorary Memper.—-Professor David Starr Jordan 
was elected the first Honorary Member of the Club. 
Bustvess.—Mr. Froggatt, F.L.S., continued his lecture, 
“Natural History Notes on My Recent World-Tour,” and 
an interesting discussion followed. 
Exuipits.—Mr. Stead exhibited a fire fish (Pferozs 
zebra), from Pt. Macquarie. Mr. Harrison exhibited edu- 
cational leaflets of the National Association of Anderson So- 
cieties of U.S.A. 
NATURAL HISTORY NOTES OF MY RECENT WORLD 
TOUR. 
(By W. W. Froggatt, F.L.S.) 
(Continued from Page 166.) 
Cupa is rich in fire flies, one of which is like a large click 
beetle, with a lamp on either side of the thorax. I caught 
a number of fine butterflies at Banes on Sunday morning, 
mostly allied to South American forms. In Jamaica there 
are many little birds in all the gardens and open forest, and 
Mr. Cundell gives 43 species as peculiar to the island. But 
the mongoose that was imported to keep down the rats has 
increased to such an extent that it has destroyed much of 
the bird life, and even the snakes and lizards. The rats, 
learning wisdom in time, escaped by taking to the trees in 
which they now dwell. Among the common birds in the 
gardens round the town are the ‘‘Jew birds,’’—black birds 
with curiously thickened beaks, from which they take their 
peculiar name. Many of the country houses are overrun with 
a pretty little green lizard, which is very tame, and has a 
curious habit of puffing out the loose skin under the throat 
till it stands out like a disc, giving it a very comical appear- 
ance. On New Year’s Eve I found several in my bed at 
Hartland’s Estate, but they did not seem to mind. There is 
a great deal of rugged country covered with rich tropical 
forest, and in the valleys are many fine streams of water, 
but it was too late in the season for insects. 
On our road to Barbados we stopped at several ports on the 
northern coasts of Venezuela, and some of the natives 
brought birds for sale, and one had a sloth, one of the 
most helpless, imbecile-locking animals I ever saw, as it lay 
on the wharf with its long claws resting on the rail. 
