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NOTES AND NEWS. 



The text relating to Plate III, in the present number of ' The A.uk,' 

 will be found in the January number of this volume (XIII, pp. 25, 26). 



Dr. Juan Gundlach, an Honorary Member of the American Ornith- 

 ologists' Union, died in Havana, Cuba, March 14, 1S96, at the age of 

 85 years. Dr. Gundlach was born at Marburg, Germany, in 1811, where 

 he was educated, and in 1S39 went to Cuba, where he resided during the 

 remainder of his life. For nearly fifty years he was a recognized 

 authority on the ornithology of Cuba. Some of his earlier papers 

 appeared in the Boston Journal of Natural History (1857) and the 

 Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York (1858), in which 

 he described various new species of Cuban birds. His principal contribu- 

 tions to Cuban ornithology, entitled ' Beitriige zur Ornithologie Cubas, ' 

 and 'Neue Beitriige zur Ornithologie Cubas, nach eignert 30 jahrigen 

 Beobachtungen zusammengestellt,' were published in the 'Journal fur 

 Ornithologie' (the first, 1S54, PP- lxxvii-lxxxvii, 1S55, pp. 465-480, 1856, 

 pp. 1-16, 97-112, 337-35^. 4 x 7-43 2 ' l8 57. PP. 225-242 [see also, 1S59, pp. 

 294-299,347-351]; and the second, 1871, pp. 265-295, 353-37S, 1S72, pp. 

 401-432, 1S74, pp. 1 13-166, 2S6-303, 1875, pp. 293-340, 353-4°7)- He also 

 published 'Beitrag zur Ornithologie der Insel Portorico', in the same 

 journal (1S74, pp. 304-315), and 'Neue Beitriige zur Ornithologie der 

 Insel Portorico' (1S78, pp. 157-194). He also published in Spanish an 

 elaborate paper on the birds of Porto Rico, under the title ' Apuntes para la 

 Fauna Puerto-Riquefia' (Anal, de la Soc. Esp. de Hist. Nat. VII, 1S78, 

 Aves, pp. 141-422), and papers on the mammals of Cuba and Porto Rico, 

 besides various minor papers on the ornithology of these islands. 



His researches and writings, however, were not restricted to mammals 

 and birds, his entomological publications being quite extensive, and he 

 published also on other branches of natural history. 



Dr. Gundlach was a friend and correspondent of Baird, Brewer, and 

 Lawrence, and was known through correspondence or personally to 

 many of the younger American ornithologists. He was a naturalist in 

 the fullest sense of the word, and retained his enthusiasm for his 

 favorite pursuits to the last. 1 His extensive collections in all depart- 

 ments of Cuban natural history he deposited sometime since in the 

 Havana Institute. 



Clarence A. Smith, an Associate Member of the American Ornithol- 

 ogists' Union, died in New York City, May 6, 1S96, at the age of twenty- 

 two years. Though he had published but little on ornithology he was a 

 keen observer and an expert collector, and was possessed of an extended 



'See Auk, IX, 1892, pp. 471-473. 'In Cuba with Dr Gundlach,' by 

 Charles B. Cory. 



