8 MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB 



museum at La Fermina. On his return he figured Gundlach's remarkable 

 Ivory-billed Woodpecker with the deformed bill. The upper mandible 

 grew monstrously long, following an injury, and Gundlach was told that 

 the unfortunate female was fed regularly by its mate, after the long and 

 curled bill had grown so that the bird could not secure its own food (cf. 

 Auk, vol. 3, p. 374, i886). Gundlach nevertheless believed that it was 

 able to break open white ants' nests, and thus feed in spite of its misfortune. 



Frank M. Chapman had the good fortune to get his first impressions 

 of tropical nature in Cuba, for he visited Trinidad in 1892. He made only 

 a short stay, but gathered a valuable collection which was the basis of a 

 useful report (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 4, pp. 279-330, 1892). 



After the American Occupation Messrs. William Palmer and James H. 

 Riley visited Cuba in the interest of the United States National Museum. 

 Both collected together in Pinar del Rio Province and in the Isle of Pines, 

 while Palmer later visited Baracoa in Oriente. 



In 1904 W. R. Zappey visited the Isle of Pines, and incidentally 

 secured a few birds in Cuba. The various workers in that Isle have all 

 been reviewed by Todd in his excellent 'Birds of the Isle of Pines,' already 

 mentioned. 



ORNITHOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS IN CUBA 



There are two ornithological collections in Cuba of superlative 

 importance. The first is the Gundlach collection which contains those 

 birds which he resen'ed for himself after his generous distributions to 

 scientific correspondents. This collection Is beautifully mounted, and is 

 kept in permanently sealed cases in a dark room, opened, however, upon 

 request, in the Instituto de Segunda Ensenanza de la Habana on Obispo 

 Street near the Plaza de Armas. That this collection might be kept intact, 

 and that no surreptitious purloinings for purposes of sale might take place, 

 Gundlach specified that these cases be kept forever sealed. The collection 

 is still intact, and there has been no apparent ravaging by insects. It is 

 the property of the Government, having been purchased by the Spanish 



