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of animals. The great flocks of Brazilian macaws must have wondered why the time for going to roost had indeed arrived again so soon. The chattering monkeys and the skulking jaguar would have been sorely puzzled; while the marvellous nocturnal insect life which Mr. Bates has so forcibly described would have been deceived into temporary vitality. For some minutes, it may be reasonably assumed that the forest depths resounded with those myriad notes of crickets and grasshoppers which appear to be one of the most striking features of night in the tropics.

Quitting the east coast of America, the lunar shadow took an Atlantic voyage. It crossed the ocean at perhaps its narrowest part, and may have buried in its gloom