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not far from the foot-hills of the Sierra Maestra range, ar- 

 riving on June I3th at the Cafetal "Buenavista" of Aguilera, 

 situated on the slopes of the Sierra Maestra. This magnificent 

 range extends all along the southern border of Oriente Prov- 

 ince, from Cape Maisi on the east to Cape Cruz on the west, 

 rising, in some instances directly from the sea to a maximum 

 height of some 7,000 feet at "Pico de Turquino,"* a still, zoolog- 

 cally, unexplored peak, the highest in the island. While stay- 

 ing at "Buenavista" he obtained specimens of that rarest of 

 mammals, the Solenodon cubanus (Peters), a female of which 

 served Dr. Peters for his excellent Monograph of the species ; 

 this also is the type locality for Capromys melanurus (Poey), 

 a rare mammal in collections. In this same range, at a place 

 five miles to the east of the mouth of the harbor of Santiago 

 de Cuba, where the Aguadores river cuts its way between 

 deep canons to the sea, he shot, in December, 1857, what he 

 considered one of his best prizes, the beautiful Papilio qund- 

 lachianus (Feld.). I well remember hearing him tell how he 

 procured his first specimen of this butterfly. He was collect- 

 ing the diminutive Calypte helenae (Lembeye), when he no- 

 ticed this strange butterfly over his head; at once recognizing 

 it as new, but having no net, he shot the specimen with "dust" 

 shot ! I could still go to the spot where this specimen was 

 taken, where the Aguadores river, some 600 yards from its 

 mouth, runs through a deep canon, and here I have waited 

 patiently for the colored beauties to come sailing down from 

 above, stopping for a moment at some flower before going up 

 the opposite side of the canon. I never saw it come down the 

 river, but always across, down one bank and up the other. It 

 was at this spot that Albert Bonzon, in 1888, discovered its 

 larva feeding on one of the Aristolochiae. 



Gundlach returned from "Buenavista" to Manzanillo and 

 Cape Cruz in the autumn of this year, then sailed to Santiago 

 de Cuba on a schooner, the skipper of which not only refused 

 to charge him for his passage, but offered to take him free to 

 any place on the coast he might desire, so pleased was he with 



*[The "Century Atlas" gives the elevation of Pico de Turquino as 

 8,400 feet. En.] 



