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[[left-hand page]] [[stamped page number, upper left]] 68 [[/stamp]] Trinidad 2. After lunch we went to town again, this time on the tram car. The fare is 3 pence (6ยข) or five tickets for a shilling. It is very queer to have the currency and the prices in dollars and cents (practically equivalent to U.S. dollars) and yet use English coins. We went to the Customs House again and had the trunk sent out. Then to Furness Withy & Co. to arrange for mail. [[strikeout]] At the [[/strikeout]] At 4 o'clock we had tea and were much pleased to be back to that custom again. Expect to spend this week doing errands and making arrangements. When the motor arrives I'll be all ready to go. [[left margin note]] XI-20-35 [[/margin note]] In the morning took a bus out to the ^[[Imperial]] College of Tropical Agriculture at St. Augustine, about 7 miles east of Port of Spain. The bus took nearly an hour to make the trip. I found Mr. Adamson in just a pair of shorts busily engaged in the quarantine house. After a short wait he emerged and we went to his office. He explained why he had not met us at the boat, and said he'd written letters to two of them, not knowing which we were to arrive on. After phoning to Mrs. Adamson he invited us to have dinner with them and said he would drive [[end page]] [[right-hand page]] [[stamped page number, upper right]] 69 [[/stamp]] in to get us at 7 P.M. We talked a little of collecting and condition of roads, and he gave me a copy of his mimeographed "Fauna of Trinidad, B.W.I., Annotated List of Some Species of Economic and General Interest," which is for use of new students. It has several interesting names and notes. Under mammals are mentioned: 2 monkeys; 8 bats (including [[underline]] Vampyrus spectrum[[/underline]], the largest New World bat; an ocelot, racoon, wild dog, otter, and mongoose; an agouti; porcupine, squirrel; a native deer and a pecccary; a manatee; an arboreal ant-eater and another commonly called sloth; an armadillo; [[strikethrough]] an [[/strikethrough]] two opossums. Some birds mentioned are: Kiskadee; oriole; cow-bird; [[Sick ?]] bird ([[underline]] Crotophaga ani [[/underline]], conspicuous heavy beak); mocking bird; Hummers; Owl; Herons; American Egret; Scarlet Ibis; Scissor-tail Flycatcher; osprey; Amazon parrot; toucan; green [[Jucama ?]]; Pileated [[Tinaman ?]]; brown Pelican; Frigate bird; a gull; a tern; Black Vulture; Turkey Buzzard. Reptiles include: A caiman; two tortoises; the bushmaster (largest poisonous snake known, here seldom over 8 feet, nocturnal); Fer-de-lance; coral snakes; Boa constrictor; Anaconda, largest known snake, here seldom over 15 feet; 6 other non-poisonous snakes; iguanas; legless [[end page]]
