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Gundlach's personality. Arriving at his destination in Decem- 

 ber, he stopped with his friend, the Swiss watchmaker, Charles 

 Jeanneret, of malacological fame, who was later, while on a 

 collecting trip, during the Cuban "Ten Years' Revolution," 

 most vilely murdered by the Spaniards, who claimed he was 

 a spy of the insurgents. While at Santiago, Gundlach, accom- 

 panied by Jeanneret, made side trips to "Brazo de Cauto," 

 Enramadas (now San Luis), Rincon, La Gran Piedra, and 

 Santa Maria de Sabine, where he found that interesting form 

 of Pleurodonte (Caracolus) sagemon christened jactata by 

 Gundlach. He returned for the third time to Cape Cruz in 

 April, 1858. 



His first visit to the rich collecting grounds about Guanta- 

 namo was in June, 1858, when he lived six weeks at the rail- 

 way station at Caimanera on Guantanamo Bay, where he col- 

 lected along its shores. Having found in July, on one of the 

 immense sand flats of that region, a nesting Snowy Plover, 

 Aegialitis nivosa (Cassin) with a set of three eggs, he took 

 the mother alive in a bird-net, sending her to Mr. Lawrence, 

 who described it as Aegialitis tenuirostris (Law.), but Dr. 

 Ridgway later determined the species to be A. nivosa 

 (Cass.). At the mouth of the Guantanamo river, where it 

 empties into the bay, he found the dead and bleached speci- 

 mens of Thelidomus emarginata (Gundl. ms.) that served as 

 types for this species. From Caimanera he went to the town 

 of Guantanamo as the guest of Mr. Theodore Brooks, doing 

 some collecting, then proceeding with don Enrique Lescaille 

 to the latter's cafetal "Ermitafio" on the Yateras range, where 

 the hospitable planters disputed over who should be next 

 honored by having Gundlach as guest. It was on this range 

 that he discovered the type of Clothilda cubana (H. Sch.), 

 and also rediscovered that rarest of Cuban butterflies, Hy- 

 menitis cubana (H. Sch.), the type of which he had taken in 

 1855 on the ranges in Pinar del Rio Province in the extreme 

 western end of the Island ; he was never able to find this 

 species on the mountain ranges of the Central Provinces. Of 

 no less interest was his find of the beautiful Cydimon poeyi 

 (Gundl.), whose type he took in February, feeding on the 



