1S91.] 



Lawrknck on Cluctioa doininicana colai dcaui. OI 



tains. I succeeded in shooting this one fvoni the window of my 

 room about three months since. 



"Perhaps it is a new bird, perhaps it is not; it is the same 

 Chcetura I described to you some years ago." 



In a letter dated Nov. 1 1 , in reply to one from me wisliing more 

 specimens, etc., he says : 



"I always thought as you did at first, that the Swift I sent you 

 was no other than the Dominican bird, C. doininicana^ from the 

 written description I had taken of it, when I could easily procure 

 many specimens. I will try liard to send you more specimens, 

 but I am no more residing where it is easy to get them. 



"I believe I have already told you that the small Swift must 

 breed here, as those we had shot on my plantation in June liad 

 hard shelled eggs ready to be laid." 



Mr. Cory kindly lent me a specimen of this species collected 

 for him by Mr. Winch in Guadeloupe, which agrees in every re- 

 spect with the type. 



Note on the Diablotin. 



Young Mr. Colardeau informed me, when here, that he under- 

 stood the Diablotin had returned to Guadeloupe. I requested him 

 to gel all the information he could respecting it. Dr. Colardeau 

 writes me : 



"I do not believe the Diablotin is extinct in our Island ; only 

 we have no more the old sportsmen who used to go after them 

 out of pure frolic, with plenty of dogs and black servants, when 

 I was a child some fifty years ago. The Diablotin is not pure 

 black, that I feel certain from distinct recollection, and you may 

 consider the specimens sent by the old Dr. L'Herminier as correct, 

 as he was one of those old sportsmen I have just spoken of, who, 

 in company with my great uncles, grandftither and other relatives 

 and friends used to go after them amongst the rocks and moun- 

 tains surrounding the Soufritire. A few years ago, even as low 

 as Camp Jacob, there was a Diablotin caught by a dog in a hole 

 in the bank of a mountain stream. The master of the dog was 

 satisfied to eat the bird, and I only knew of it when it was too 

 late. The bird was black above and white below, crooked beak, 

 and webbed feet." 



