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he was at last rewarded by bringing one down, but before it 

 could be retrieved there appeared out of the lagoon a crocodile 

 which reached the bird while Gundlach was laboriously wading 

 through the soft mud. Being quite put out by the theft of his 

 specimen, but not having a proper load with which to punish 

 the thief, he determined to return the next day and administer 

 deserved justice. The next morning he was on hand at the 

 same place, and to his great satisfaction saw rise out of the 

 "Cienaga" a crocodile which, to judge from its size, was just 

 the one he was after. Getting read to shoot it, he noticed that 

 two more of the identical size had made their appearance. 

 Gundlach put down his gun in doubt as to which of the three 

 was the culprit, asking them "Which of you stole my goose? 

 Was it you? or you? or perhaps it was you?" The crocodiles 

 remained quite unconcerned swimming about the dark water, 

 and Gundlach, being unable to decide which was the real of- 

 fender, desisted from his intention, fearing that the innocent 

 might pay for the guilty. During this same year he discovered 

 Mimus gundlachii gundlachii (Cabanis) on the Cayo de Santa 

 Maria, opposite San Juan de Teran point to the north of 

 Moron. 



Mrs. Booth having died of cholera in 1850, Booth moved to 

 the coffee estate "Arcadia" at "Limonar," Gundlach remaining 

 at "El Refugio." Here, in January, 1851, he met don Simon 

 de Cardenas, a meeting that ripened into a sincere friendship 

 most useful to Gundlach, as he afterwards (in 1855) made his 

 home, and later (1864) moved his museum to the "Fermina" 

 or sugar estate of the Cardenas family, whence many of his 

 most notable specimens came. 



In 1852 Gundlach went to Havana, stopping with his friend, 

 the schoolmaster-ornithologist don Juan Lembeye ; here he 

 met don Ramon Forns, who later got together the collection 

 of birds, crustaceans, etc., that was purchased in 18/6 by the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Havana, and forms its 

 collection. He also met for the first time Professor Felipe 

 Poey, the father of Cuban Zoology, with whom he had been 

 in correspondence since 1840. This meeting at the house of 

 Poey was as follows : Poey had used frequently in his corre- 



