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I afterwards sent a female in alcohol to the Society of 

 Natural History of Cassel (electorado Hessen), and from 

 thence it was sent to the Museum of Berlin, where the Di- 

 rector of the same, Dr. Peters, made a study of it, which 

 was published in the "Abhandlung der koniglichen Akad- 

 emie der Wissenschaften in Berlin, 1863," with three en- 

 gravings, representing the animal, its skeleton, and some in- 

 terior and exterior parts of the same ; the engraving of the 

 animal is colored. He found some differences between the 

 examples from Cuba and the one from Haiti, received for 

 comparison from St. Petersburg, and for this reason named 

 the former Solenodon cub anus. 



In the same year I sent two examples to Washington. 

 Of these, one is still at the Smithsonian Institution and 

 Professor Baird sent the other to England. 



The genus is found in the Sierra Maestra, south of Ba- 

 yamo, and from there Professor Poey and myself have both 

 received several individuals, presented to us by Dr. Manuel 

 Yero ; and it is also said to exist in the mountain near 

 Sagua de Tanamo and Mayafi, for having once taken a live 

 individual to the coffee plantation Iaguey, in the District 

 of Yateras, some of the men working there, natives of Sagua 

 de Tanamo, said they had seen the animal there, when 

 they saw mine. 



In the year 1857, I went to Bayamo, to the coffee-plan- 

 tation Buena-Vista, south of Bayamo, from whence Yero 

 had received the individuals he had given me. There I 

 went with a wood- keeper to the highest part of the mount- 

 ain and met with evident signs of the existence of the ani- 

 mal in places where it had been scratching the soil in 

 search of food (worms and insects], and I also saw holes 

 made by the animal in which it lives during the day-time. 

 In order to get the animal it is necessary to dig to the bot- 

 tom of the hole or cave, and this is sometimes a very hard 

 task, where the roots of large trees render the digging diffi- 

 cult. Though the Solenodon is not very rare, yet it is not 

 easy to procure one, and when desired, a high price must be 



