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10. Sterna fuscata fuscata Linne. 



Mauve a Manteau Noir. 



One adult female from Les Saintes, September 10th. 

 The fishermen report that this species also breeds on some of the 

 outlying islets of Guadeloupe. 



11. Anous stolidus stolidus (Linne). 

 Mwen. Noddi. 



One adult male from Les Saintes, September 10th. 



Like the Roseate and Sooty Terns, the Noddy is rarely seen about 

 the mainland of Guadeloupe but is reported to breed on Les Saintes, 

 Tete Anglais, and possibly elsewhere nearby. 



12. Aestrelata il\esitata (Kuhl). 



Diablotin. 



One of the chief reasons of my visit to Guadeloupe was to obtain 

 information about the Black-capped Petrels. A few days after land- 

 ing I had the good fortune to meet Monsieur C. Thionville, President 

 of the Club des Montagnards. The name Diablotin was associated 

 in his mind with the past history and early colonization of the French 

 in Guadeloupe. He immediately began to make inquiries about 

 Basse Terre but without much success. Finally we made a trip 

 together high up into the hills of Matouba to visit an old negro called 

 Pere Lownisky living on the slopes of the Soufriere. This old man 

 in his early youth had often hunted Diablotins and had joined several 

 of the large parties which had camped on the Nez Casse to dig out 

 the Diablotins from their burrows. Since Pere Lownisky had spent 

 his entire life in Matouba he knew all the old breeding grounds of the 

 Black-capped Petrels. He told us that the Diablotins formerly bred 

 on the north and northeast slope of Nez Casse. The birds arrived 

 in late September and the period of incubation for the colony as a 



