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Notes on Cuban Mammals. 1 



By Dr. Juan Gundlach. 



Chiroptera. — Of the twenty species of Bats observed by 

 Dr. Gundlach, in Cuba, nineteen have been recorded by him 

 in his paper entitled " Contribucion a la Mamalogia Cu- 

 bana." 2 He places them in two groups, as follows: 

 I. Species with a nose-leaf or with fleshy wrinkles over the 

 nostrils or around the mouth. These hang themselves dur- 

 ing the day by the hind-legs. They eat insects and fruit. 

 The following genera are included : Macrotus, Monophyllns, 

 Phyllonycteris, Artibeus, Phyllops, Brachypkylla, Mormops, 

 Ckilonycteris, Noctilio. II. Species without a nose-leaf and 

 with no wrinkles about the mouth. These sleep in crevices 

 and do not hang themselves by the hind-feet. They eat 

 only insects. The following genera are included : Molossus, 

 Nyctinomus, Natalus, Vesperus, Nycticejus, AtalapJia. 



SOLENODON Brandt. 



Mr. Brandt, member of the Academy of St. Petersburg, 

 published in the year 1833 in the " Memoires de l'Academie 

 de St. Petersburg," Vol. II., p. 459, the description of the 

 genus Solenodon, with the species paradoxus, a male of 

 which was sent to him from Haiti. No other examples seem 

 to have been sent to naturalists. 



Professor Poey, of the University of Havana, gave notice 



1 The part relating to the Chiroptera has been abridged ; the remainder of 

 the paper is given in full, as written. 



2 Annales de la Real Academia de Ciencias medicas, fisicas, y naturales de 

 la Habana, 1877. 



