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guane on the label is the name of the Haitian species, but 

 it is the name of the locality where it was found. 



The name Solenodon is composed of two Greek words 

 and means '• teeth with a channel," because the second 

 incisor tooth of the inferior mandible is large and has a 

 channel on the inside. The channel seems to be the con- 

 ductor of a liquid which is perhaps poisonous. Dr. Peters 

 did not find glands in connection with the teeth. I was 

 once bitten by the animal in the finger with the channelled 

 incisors and the wound swelled; but this happened also 

 with the bite of other animals in anger. I was always able 

 to touch and remove it to clean the cage without any as- 

 sistance except in the case mentioned. 



My friend Yero, who had kept several examples in a 

 room, viz.: a female with two very young ones, that held 

 tight to the mammae of the mother while it went around 

 the room. I have observed that the extremity of the 

 mamma was harder than its base and this probably aided 

 the young ones in holding to them. 



I have also seen female bats flying away, frightened, with 

 their little ones hanging on their breast. 



The animal erected the hair on its back, when in anger or 

 when a dog happened to come near it. It could be fed with 

 raw meat cut into very fine strips of the shape of worms, or 

 with little pieces of birds intestines, with insects or earth 

 worms. 



The color of the fur varies somewhat, but the most com- 

 mon is the one given in the engravings published by Poey 

 and Peters. 



Dr. Peters gives the differences of the two species : the 

 length of the hair of the back is in S. paradoxus 35 milime- 

 tres, and in cub anus 75 milimetres, and the nostrils are 

 situated in the border and near the extremity of the head, 

 in cub anus and in paradoxus are below; they are sep- 

 arated on the underside in paradoxus for a broader space. 



Capromys Desmarest. 

 There are only three species of Capromys in Cuba. The 



