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in range. C. T. Ramsden, the accomplished naturalist of Guanta- 
namo has found a few specimens on the coast cliffs of the extreme 
eastern end of theisland. Wirt Robinson sent one to the M. C. Z. from 
Santiago in December, 1903. The only very young Cyclura we have 
seen was one loaned by Ramsden, and obtained by Oskar Tollin during 
a trip to Belig, near Cabo Cruz, in the summer of 1914. The species 
is still abundant on the Cayos near Manzanillo and those off the south 
coast near Santa Cruz del Sur. It is fairly abundant on the Isle of 
Pines. In 1915 while Prof. de la Torre and his assistant Sr. V. J. 
Rodriguez were collecting with W. S. Brooks and T. Barbour in the 
region of Guane, we learned that Iguanas were still not uncommon . 
in the limestone mountains which encircle the glorious valley of Luis 
Lazo. Here we got two fine adult specimens, one for the Museo 
Poey in Havana and one for the M. C. Z. Prof. de la Torre says that 
Iguanas are also fairly common on the Pan de Guajaibon and he 
writes us that he has recently seen one near Baracoa. They persist 
as well on many of the small and remote cayos of the north coast. 
Curiously enough in spite of what Gundlach says — no one appears 
to eat Iguanas in Cuba at the present time. Ramsden has also 
observed this and writes me that he has been told that Cubans believe 
the Iguana to be very poisonous. When hung up by the tail, they say, 
a baba or burujo, as they call it, black drivel or vomit, runs from its 
mouth. This is supposed to be deadly. The black vomit due to 
blood in the stomach, which marks the final stage of a fatal case of 
yellow fever, is also called in Cuba burujo, a name also used for the 
grounds of coffee, and it may be that some imagined similarity between 
these burujos, coupled with forgetfulness which increased as Iguanas 
grew rare, has now spread the idea that Iguanas are unfit for food, 
when once, in Cuba as elsewhere, they were eagerly sought after. 
It will be noticed that some old, long standing specific names have 
been dropped. The reason for this is as follows:— the name nubila 
was based upon a young specimen without locality. The descrip- 
tion given by Gray is worthless. The type is mentioned in Boulenger’s 
Catalogue and hence doubtless is still in existence. When it is 
examined it will probably be possible to determine whether the name 
supercedes one used here or whether it represents another distinct 
species. It is impossible to determine this. Cope attached the name 
nubila to a specimen which he said was from Cat Island and was U. S. 
N. M. 14576; but Stejneger tells us that this number is borne bya 
specimen of Leiocephalus and that there is now no Cat Island Iguana 
in the U. S. N. M. and no evidence that there ever was one. Cuvier 
