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paid for it. In 1885 or 1886, Professor Baird of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, and Dr. Reynoso, director of the Insti- 

 tute at Havana, desired some individuals, and for three 

 of these seventy-three dollars were paid. Of these three, 

 I prepared one for the Havana Institute, the other two were 

 sent to Washington, one in alcohol and the other alive. 

 The two arrived safely and the living one was sent to the 

 Zoological Garden of Philadelphia, where it was kept until 

 it died. After that I received from Mr. Yero (son of Dr. 

 Yero), a few more individuals, one of which was given to 

 the Academy of Sciences, medicals, fisicals, and naturals of 

 Havana, another to the University of Havana, one was sent 

 to the Museum of Bremen, one to the Museum of Geneva, 

 Switzerland; two to Paris; of another I prepared a skeleton 

 for the Institute of Havana, and a male and a very young 

 one I sent in alcohol to Berlin, to Dr. Peters, for the con- 

 tinuation of his monograph, but he died before completing 

 it. 



My friend, Mr. Ramsden, the English Consul at Santi- 

 ago de Cuba, procured a specimen which he sent in alcohol 

 to England, and Don Francisco Timeno, of Matanzas, re- 

 ceived a specimen from a friend for his collection. 



I have received no examples since 1889. I have asked 

 for one for Mr. Cory and another for the American Museum 

 of Natural History in New York. 



The names Tamache at Cienfuegos and Tejon, at Ba- 

 yamo cannot be kept for the species, because the name 

 Tamache is (if I am well informed) that of a Mexican animal 

 and quite different, and Tejon is the Meles taxus of Europe, a 

 large plantigrade animal. The name Andaras, mentioned 

 in Peters' treatise, page 19, as used in Guisa and the Sierra 

 Maestra, belongs to the species Capromys melanitrus Poey. 

 The name Aire given by Oviedo is improper and not to 

 be admitted. The name Almiqui given by Prof. Poey, say- 

 ing it is the name of a mountain, is the name of a tree, 

 Mimusops taimiqni, and probably not of a mountain. 

 Dr. Peters, in a note on page 19, says that the name Mira- 



