noble: the resident birds of Guadeloupe. 363 



There are many migrants which are either erratic wanderers or 

 reguhir visitants and which pass over Guadeloupe, but the information 

 regarding them is usually quite unreliable. The list of birds observed 

 by L'Herminier (Proc. U. S. N. M., 1879, 1, p. 450-451), between 1827 

 and 1844, is very large, and I doubt if some of the species recorded 

 have been found on Guadeloupe in recent times. Winch (see Cory, 

 Auk, 1891, 8, p. 48-49) and Ober (see Lawrence, Proc. U. S. N. M., 

 1879, 1, p. 452-462) both collected several of the migrants. Their 

 lists, plus my own observations, include the following species which 

 though not mentioned in the annotated list are nevertheless probably 

 of regular occurrence: — Sterna antillarum, Ereunetes jnisillus, Pisobia 

 minutiUa, P. maculata, Actitis macularia, Helodromas solitarius, 

 Aegialifis semipahnata, Ceryle alcyon, Seiurus novcboracensis, 

 Wilsonia canadensis, Sctophaga ndiciUa. Probably other species, 

 chiefly herons and sea-birds visit the island as stragglers. I saw on 

 July 22nd in a pond near Cluny a duck which I believe was Dendro- 

 cygna discolor. Many other species of ducks visit the island on migra- 

 tion. Mr. Delphin Duchamp, a prominent planter, informed me 

 that the Ani {Crotophaga ani) and the White-crowned Pigeon {C'olumba 

 leucocephala) have been occasionally seen on Guadeloupe after a 

 hurricane. Other species very probably reach the island under similar 

 circumstances. 



Acknowledgements. 



It gives me pleasure to acknowledge with many thanks the kind 

 assistance of His Excellency, Monsieur Lauret, the Governor of 

 Guadeloupe. Monsieur C. Thionville of his staff was also especially 

 considerate. I am indebted to Monsieur D. Duchamp and Monsieur 

 Riese for many favors while visiting their plantations. 



During the preparation of this paper I have received assistance 

 from Messrs. W. De W. Miller, John T. Nichols, and Charles H. 

 Rogers of the American Museum of Natural History, who have exam- 

 ined specimens in that museum at my request ; to the officers of the 

 United States National Museum, the Philadelphia Academy of Natu- 

 ral Sciences, and the Field Museum of Natural History I am also 

 indebted for their help in straightening out the status of Tiaris bicolor 

 omissa; and I take great pleasure in thanking Mr. Outram Bangs and 

 Dr. Thomas Barbour for explaining many technicalities of descrip- 

 tion and literature. 



