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There are many migrants which are either erratic wanderers or 
regular 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 pusillus, Pisobia 
minutilla, P. maculata, Actitis macularia, Helodromas_ solitarius, 
Aegialitis semipalmata, Ceryle alcyon, Seiurus noveboracensis, 
Wilsonia canadensis, Setophaga ruticilla. 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 (Columba 
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. JI 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. . 
