. A naturalist in Mexico : being a visit to Cuba, northern Yucatan and Mexico . C/) z<o UJ Ixl > (-<t Z Q. DO cco SUBURBS OF MERIDA. 13 secured a photograph of a group of native men, women,and children. Along the walls, and in the fields bordering the road,we searched for fossils, and succeeded in finding severalfine specimens. We found here several fossil mollusksidentical with those found in the Caloosahatchie beds ofsouthern Florida. This fact seemed to point toward a latergeological period than is generally assigned to Yucatan,and showed it to be clearly related to the Post Plioce
. A naturalist in Mexico : being a visit to Cuba, northern Yucatan and Mexico . C/) z<o UJ Ixl > (-<t Z Q. DO cco SUBURBS OF MERIDA. 13 secured a photograph of a group of native men, women,and children. Along the walls, and in the fields bordering the road,we searched for fossils, and succeeded in finding severalfine specimens. We found here several fossil mollusksidentical with those found in the Caloosahatchie beds ofsouthern Florida. This fact seemed to point toward a latergeological period than is generally assigned to Yucatan,and showed it to be clearly related to the Post Pliocene ofFlorida. We also found large numbers of land shellsabout the stone wails bordering the road, and occasionallya lively little lizard would start from a crevice and scamperunder a projecting rock. As we penetrated farther into the country, birds, andanimal life in general, became more abundant. Bright plu-maged birds flew from tree to tree, and gaudy butterfliesflitted slowly by. Among- the birds we could distinguishsuch species as the Great tailed Grackle, n
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