Transcribe Bowrey, James John. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1883-09-19)

readily captures if the sea permits a landing on their rocky territory. Have you in your collections the Jamaican Coney so called it is being exterminated by the Mongoose introduced to destroy rats, indeed the Mongoose will destroy all our ground nesting birds, the Coney, our only indigenous mammal, and many of our reptiles. Yours truly, James John Bowrey