File:Plate IV. Ruins of Labna. A naturalist in Mexico, 1895.jpg

Identifier: reportofnavalcom01unit (find matches)
Title: Report of the Naval committee to the House of representatives, August, 1850, in favor of the establishment of a line of mail steamships to the western coast of Africa, and thence via the Mediterranean to London;
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) DLC (from old catalog)
Subjects: Mail steamers African Americans
Publisher: Washington, Printed by Gideon and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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t upon its roof, was a second,much smaller, with an elaborately sculptured facade. Thisbuilding was divided into several rooms. The doors herehad an addition, not before observed in any building inUxmal; this was two pillars of stone dividing the doorwayinto three apertures. This character was not observed in thebuildings below. The roof was much fallen and overgrownwith large and small trees, which were running their rootsinto the crevices among the stones, and slowly but surelycausing the rain of these interesting relics of by-gone days. In the interest of our work, I had not discovered thatthousands of garrapatas were crawling over me. Theseinsects are the scourge of Yucatan, and altogether were amore constant source of annoyance and suffering than any weencountered in the country. These, in color, size, and num-bers, were like grains of sand, and dispersed themselves allover my body, getting into the seams of my clothes, andburying themselves in my flesh. Their habit was to attach
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BIRDS SEEN. 53 themselves to the skin by plunging their proboscis into it,and thus suck the blood until their flat bodies were dis-tended into a globular form. It was very curious that so few birds were seen aboutthe ruins. Among those observed were the GuatemalanWoodpecker, Uxmal Woodpecker, Ruby-throated Hum-mingbird, Mexican Kingbird, and a single specimen, whichwe obtained, of Grays Thrush. Glandma Cylindraca, one ofthe most abundant moUusks of Yucatan, was found here inconsiderable numbers. Another abundant species was theChondropoma Largillicrti, a beautiful yellowish-white shellwith rows of brown spots. Bulimulus tropicalis and CyclotusjDysoni, a beautiful ribbed species, and a Helicina, were thecommon forms seen. One new variety of Cylindrella wasfound ((7. speluncQi, var. dubid). A single snake (^Dryophisfulgidus) was seen and captured. A rabbit was also seen,but not obtained. Insects were not seen (excepting thetroublesome garrapatas). It was with much regret that we left th

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