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to prefer the hot scrubby fields to the streams and swamps, although 

 some are always to be found about the mangroves. 



42. Troglodytes guadeloupensis (Cory). 

 Rossignol. 



One adult female taken July 13th, near Ste. Rose. 



This species is now practically extinct owing to the Mongoose. 

 Twenty-five years ago the bird was widely distributed all over the 

 island, and like the House Wren would frequent the gardens about 

 the villages. For more than ten years it has been extremely rare and 

 local, found only in the high woods which have been more or less 

 cut over. Although I visited over a dozen distinct localities on 

 Guadeloupe it was only seen on the wooded hills back of Ste. Rose. 



It was in the evening, shortly after the sun had set that I heard for 

 the first time the song of this wren. It was long and varied with more 

 of a warbler quality than that of a wren. But the profusion and 

 bubbling merriment of the song could be given only by a wren. As I 

 advanced through the brush, the bird darted off to a fallen log, ran 

 nimbly- along it, hopped into a low tree and began to flit upwards from 

 one branch to the next till it had reached the top. Then it flew off to 

 another tree to again start its spiral climb upwards. When finally 

 shot it proved to be a female, and although unsuspected until the 

 specimen was dissected I had probably been following a pair of wrens 

 and not a single individual. 



43. Cinclocerthia ruficauda tremula (Lafresnaye). 

 Trembleur. Grive Trombleuse. 



Eight specimens, adults and half-grown individuals, taken through- 

 out July and the latter part of August from the Soufriere, Ste. Rose, 

 and Goyave. 



Confined entirely to the deep woods, this bird is one of the few 

 species one meets while struggling through the forest. When flushed 

 from the ground where it is habitually to be found, it flits up to a low 

 branch and begins to shake as if in the grasp of a tropical fever. At 



