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[211.] Hist. of Brazil, p. 346.

[212.] Jamieson gives Grou-grou as a Scottish name for the Corn-grub.—Scot. Dict., iii. 516.

[213.] Shaw, Zool., vi. 62. Cuvier, An. Kingd.—Ins., ii. 80.

[214.] Stedm. Surinam, ii. 23.

[215.] Ibid., ii. 115.

[216.] Acct. of the Sierra Leone Africans, i. 314, note.

[217.] Travels, i. 410.

[218.] Gummila, i. 9. See also Southey’s Hist. of Brazil, i. 110.

[219.] Hist. of Barbados, p. 646.

[220.] Entretenimiento, vi. § 11.