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the island ; each intensely rich, a paradise for the collector. 

 Gundlach returned from Rangel to Las Posas through San 

 Diego de los Bafios and Catalina, exploring on the way the 

 slopes of the Guajaibon range, securing many species new to 

 science, having spent a little over two months on the trip. 



It was in June, 1856, under the auspices of Poey, Gutierrez 

 and Paz, with a capital of a little over $200.00 furnished by 

 them, that Gundlach began his first long trip through the 

 Island. Curiously enough when he returned to Havana after 

 over three years he had not spent the entire sum ! It was ar- 

 ranged that Gundlach should get all types and uniques, while 

 the duplicates were to be divided equally among the four. He 

 first visited his former haunts in the "Cienaga de Zapata," 

 from which he went to Cienfuegos, then to Trinidad, where 

 he was cordially received by don Justo German Cantero, a rich 

 planter. He explored while hereabouts the "Vigia" of Trini- 

 dad, Casilda and "Boca de Guaurabo," as also Juan de Letran, 

 Magua, Giiinia de Soto, Las Lagunas, Aracas, Sitio Quema- 

 do and while near Sancti Spiritus, he explored the Sierra de 

 Banao, all with most satisfactory results in new species. 



By February, 1857, Gundlach had reached Cape Cruz, San- 

 tiago de Cuba (now Oriente) Province where he at once made 

 friends with the pilots that lived there. It was here that he 

 was able to study and collect the Yellow-billed Tropic Bird, 

 Phaethan americanus (Grant), examples of which he had seen 

 from the sailing vessel when he had rounded the southern 

 coast of Cuba nineteen years before. He also found here the 

 Cricosaura typica (Gundl.), the most interesting species in 

 the reptilian fauna of Cuba. Barbour, in his recent work, 

 "The Zoogeography of the West Indies," Cambridge, 1914, 

 says of this species: "This remarkable archaic monotypic 

 genus has for herpetologists an interest equivalent to that 

 which is held for Solenodon among students of mammals. Its 



excessive rarity makes it the most-to-be-desired 



booty of any naturalist who may collect in Cuba." From here 

 also came the types of Helix prominula (Pfr.) and Liguus 

 poeyana (Pfr.), the latter remarkable for its sinistral whorls. 



Through Manzanillo he went to Bayamo, an interior town 



