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 THE CONDOR Vol. XXI many other kindnesses, Major Harris placed at our disposal. However, we got no farther than a short distance beyond the portals of the Everglades, which at that point we found to be little else but a sea of tall canes and grasses, studded here and there with islets clothed with cypress and other sub-tropical vegeta- tion. The tortuous channels by which they were traversed were too narrow and shallow for the passage of a boat, and were navigable only by the light canoe of the Indian. Here we were introduced to that hawk of anomalous mollusk- eating habits, the Everglade Kite or "snailhawk", an excellent account of which with its nest and eggs is to be found in Maynard's "Birds of Eastern North America", 1881, p. 284. Here also we heard for the first time the scream of the cougar, a few of which lurked in these.swampy fastnesses to prey upon the deer which were still fairly numerous. IIFE AT MIAMI The Seminole Indians from their settlements in the Everglades frequently visited us at Miami, bringing venison and delicious sweet potatoes, which we were always glad to buy, for, to tell the truth, Weeks and I, who messed by ourselves (mess is exactly the right word), fared none too sumptuously. True there was some small game in the woods, quail and rabbits, and schools of fish played in the bay before our eyes, but both of us were busy from morning to night at our self-imposed tasks, and begrudged every moment we spent in at- tempts to replenish our larder. We took turns cooking--Heaven save the nark!--and as each of us soon became expert at making flapjacks we lived principally upon that delicacy, made palatable with molasses syrup, which we found, somewhat to our surprise, quite capable of sustaining human life. From that day to this the flapjack has ceased to be an object of interest to me. Perhaps the most notable bird ve found-at or near Miami was the little grassquit (Phonipara zena), now known as Tim'is bicolor, a straggler from the Bahamas, of which I took a single specimen January 19,.1871.' We also se- cured the nest and eggs of the Everglade Kite in a magnolia bush on March 24. But we obtained fine series of many southern species, which well illustrated the avifauna of the region, and certain of which have since been described as new by one and another author. Most of the specimens Collected on the trip found a permanent abiding place in the Mnsemn of Comparative Zoology, or the Agassiz Museum, as it was generally known in those days. Mr. Maynard and his wife left April 2 on a sailing yadht for a collecting cruise through the Keys to Key West, while I remained in Miami till the end of May when I returned home by way of Key West and New York. I never published any notes upon the results of my Florida trip, but in Maynard's "Birds of Florida", three parts only of which were issued, and in his "Birds of Florida with the Water and Game Birds of Eastern North Amer- ica", of which 9 parts were published; and finally in his "Birds of Eastern North America", the reader will find much valuable information and many in- teresting details of the habits of Florida birds. These were gathered by this indefatigable naturalist, not only on the '70-'71 trip with me, but during sev- eral other seasons when he explored different parts of the peninsula, in which work he was one of the pioneers. 2This bird is figured on the Lantana on which it was shot in !V[aynard's "Birds of Eastern North America", 1881, pl. II, p. 328.