Nicknamed "The Cuban Sylph" for his elegant and stylistic play as a third baseman, Bellán joined the Troy Haymakers in 1869, while the team was member of the NABBP and still an amateur team.
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During the operation, Corbet abandoned Sapphire and another sloop Sylph in the Persian Gulf.
It has been speculated that The Sylph was written by Sophia Briscoe.
Although The Mountain Sylph is all but forgotten, it inspired parts of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1882 Savoy Opera, Iolanthe.
Berg bamboo is the host plant for an endangered butterfly species, the Bamboo Sylph Metisella syrinx.