NOBLE: THE RESIDENT BIRDS OF GUADELOUPE. 365 
adult and half-grown birds from Les Saintes taken during the first 
week in September. 
Oberholser (Proc. U. S. N. M., 1912, 42, p. 529-577) has recently 
revised the subspecies of Butorides virescens and has described several 
new Antillean'races. He refers the Guadeloupe bird to B. v. cubanus 
(Oberholser, Loc. cit., p. 559-561) and erects another new race, B. v. 
christophorensis between the Guadeloupe bird and the northern race, 
B. v. cubanus. 
I have compared a large series of specimens from nearly every 
island in the Antilles with the eighteen specimens taken on Guadeloupe 
and St. Croix and am convinced that the green herons from Cuba 
to Grenada all belong to one subspecies. Messrs. Bangs and Barbour 
have studied this series with me and have called my attention to the 
fact that the series from Guadeloupe includes within its range of 
variation, in color and measurements, the distinguishing characters 
of four of Oberholser’s new subspecies:— namely, B. v. christophoren- 
sis, B. v. dominicanus, B. v. lucianus, and B. v. grenadensis. I saw 
in early July a green heron flying a considerable distance off the north 
shore of Guadeloupe and from the bird’s position high in the air, both 
Antigua and Dominica must have been plainly visible. It seems very 
probable that green herons wander from island to island throughout 
the Greater and Lesser Antilles. 
The Antillean race of green heron feeds in both fresh- and salt- 
water swamps but for some reason it is only locally abundant through- 
out Guadeloupe and Grande Terre. In general its habits are like 
those of our own Green Heron (B. v. virescens) except that the Antil- 
lean race has adapted itself to lizard hunting. On both St. Croix 
and Guadeloupe I have observed the green heron standing motion- 
less in the center of a dry field watching for an Anolis. It is surpris- 
ing to see this bird of the twilight and the swamps apparently dozing 
in the middle of an open field while the tropical sun glares down from 
directly overhead. 
4. CERCHNEIS SPARVERIA CARIBBAEARUM (Gmelin). 
Gli-Gli. 
Seven adults from various localities on Guadeloupe and Les Saintes: 
two from Ste. Rose July 13th, one from Ste. Claude June 26th, one 
from Goyave September 6th and three from Les Saintes September 
15th. 
