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[2] See the excellent _Synopsis_ by Sclater and Salvin in the
_Proceedings of the Zoological Society_ for 1870 (pp. 504-544), while
further information on the Cracinae was given by Sclater in the
_Transactions_ of the same society (ix. pp. 273-288, pls. xl.-liii.).
Some additions have since been made to the knowledge of the family,
but none of very great importance.
GUANABACOA (an Indian name meaning "site of the waters"), a town of
Cuba, in Havana province, about 6 m. E. of Havana. Pop. (1907) 14,368.
Guanabacoa is served by railway to Havana, with which it is connected by
the Regla ferry across the bay. It is picturesquely situated amid woods,
on high hills which furnish a fine view. There are medicinal springs in
the town, and deposits of liquid bitumen in the neighbouring hills. The
town is essentially a residence suburb of the capital, and has some
rather pretty streets and squares and some old and interesting churches
(including Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion, 1714-1721). Just outside the
city is the church of Potosi with a famous "wonder-working" shrine and
image. An Indian pueblo of the same name existed here before 1555, and a
church was established in 1576. Already at the end of the 17th century
Guanabacoa was the fashionable summer residence of Havana. It enjoyed
its greatest popularity in this respect from the end of the 18th to the
middle of the 19th century. It was created a _villa_ with an
_ayuntamiento_ (city council) in 1743. In 1762 its fort, the Little
Morro, on the N. shore near Cojimar (a bathing beach, where the Key West
cable now lands), was taken by the English.
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