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much information for this article, tells me that in 1882 he saw 

 a pair of humminf^ Mrrls. Riccordia ricordii ricoriii (Gcrvais), 

 nesting in an unused chandelier in Gundlach's room at the 

 "Fermina" estate. The birds would fly in at the window, to 

 the table where Gtmdlach worked, taking bits of cotton and 

 tow to build their nest, such was his gentleness. 



Since 1866 Gundlach had been invited by the Jesuit priests 

 at San Juan, Porto Rico, to form a collection for their school 

 in that city, but his attendance at the Paris Exposition obliged 

 him to decline. He was again invited in 1870. this time by the 

 then German Vice-Consul at Mayaguez, Herr Leopold Krug. 

 who shortly after left for Berlin, so Gundlach did not decide 

 to visit the Island till 1873. when, seeing that the revolution in 

 Cuba was not waning, he embarked at Havana on the 4th of 

 Jtine of that year on the steamer **Manisda" for Mayaguez. 

 where he got in contact with the amateur naturalists of the 

 Island, such as Dr. Domingo Bello EspmoM (botanist), of 

 Mayaguez; Mr. Halmarson (omithokigist), of Arcctbo, and. 

 on his second trip, with Dr. Agustin Stahl of Bayamon. well 

 known to all who have worked Porto Rko zoologKally. It was 

 Dr. BeUo Esptnosa who, in 1871. first discovered that the genus 

 Eltutkerodaeiyku (Hylodes) did not tmdergo all the trans- 

 formations usual with the frogs, and Gundlach, in 1881, made 

 further research on this same subject, sending his results to 

 Dr. Peters, of Berlin, who then described and figured eggs 

 and enbryos of the EUuthrrodactytus martinicmsis (Tschu- 

 di). Gundlach remained in Porto Rico for six months, work- 

 ing over .\guadilla, Gu.nnica, I.ares. and I'tuado in the interior, 

 as also Arccibo on the north coast and Quebradillas, return- 

 ing to Havana, where he arrived on December 4th, 1873. 



His second Porto Rican trip was begun on the 4th of Sep- 

 tember, 1875, when he embarked on the steamer "Marsella." 

 His work on this occasion was for the most part alx>ut Vega 

 Baja, and Ba3ram6n, where he was the guest of Dr. Stahl. Re- 

 turning, he arrived at Havana on the 25th of August, 1876, 

 making a third trip in 1881, remaining there for some time. 



Altematinf with these trips he worked on the publication 

 of his writings on Cuba and Porto Rico. The former were 



