No. 10.— The Resident Birds of Guadeloupe. 
By G. K. Noste. 
INTRODUCTION. 
DurincG the summer and early fall of 1914 I visited, in the interest 
of the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, Guadeloupe in the French 
West Indies. 
On the way and for the first few days while on Guadeloupe I was 
fortunate in having the company of Mr. F. R. Wulsin. We had 
several opportunities to make short ornithological excursions on some 
of the islands to the north of Guadeloupe. On the homeward voyage 
the ship was detained at St. Croix and several days were spent there 
in the field. 
I remained on Guadeloupe from June 22nd to September 12th. 
In order to cover all the main regions of Guadeloupe and Grande 
Terre I spent four days or more in each of the following localities :— 
Pointe a Pitre, Goyave, Basse Terre, Ste. Claude, the Soufriére, Vieux 
Habitants, Cluny, Ste. Rose, Soffire, and St. Francois. My interest 
was chiefly in the land-birds and I was fortunate in finding all of the 
existing resident species. 
Guadeloupe possesses a local museum, the Musée L’Herminier, 
in the town of Pointe a Pitre. Dr. F. L’Herminier was undoubtedly 
the greatest naturalist who ever lived on Guadeloupe; a student of 
the famous Blainville, he applied the best methods of his time to the 
study of Antillean bird life. Unfortunately in the great Pointe a Pitre 
fire of 1844, all his work on Guadeloupe birds was swept away. Lafres- 
naye (Rev. zool., 1844, p. 168) in describing some of L’Herminier’s 
specimens comments briefly on this disaster :— 
“Quoique nous eussions déja ces trois espéces, que nous devions & 
Vobligeance de M. L’Herminier, avant l’affreuse catastrophe de la 
Pointe-a-Pitre, nous ne les avions pas publiées parce qu’il nous avait 
confié son projet de publier une Faune ornithologique de la Guade- 
loupe. Depuis lors, il nous y a autorisé, tout en nous apprenant que 
loin de renoncer & son projet, et malgré la perte immense pour lui de 
tous ses oiseaux, soit montés, soit dans l’alcool, de tous ses livres et de 
toutes ses notes, il s’occupe avec une nouvelle ardeur de le mettre a 
exécution.” 
