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10. SvreRNA FUSCATA FUSCATA Linné. 
Mauve A Manteau Noir. 
One adult female from Les Saintes, September 10th. 
The fishermen report that this species also breeds on some of the 
outlying islets of Guadeloupe. 
11. ANovus sToLipus sTotipus (Linné). 
Mwen. Noddi. 
One adult male from Les Saintes, September 10th. 
Like the Roseate and Sooty Terns, the Noddy is rarely seen about 
the mainland of Guadeloupe but is reported to breed on Les Saintes, 
Téte Anglais, and possibly elsewhere nearby. 
12. AESTRELATA HAESITATA (Kuhl). 
Diablotin. 
One of the chief reasons of my visit to Guadeloupe was to obtain 
information about the Black-capped Petrels. A few days after land- 
ing I had the good fortune to meet Monsieur C. Thionville, President 
of the Club des Montagnards. The name Diablotin was associated 
in his mind with the past history and early colonization of the French 
in Guadeloupe. He immediately began to make inquiries about 
Basse Terre but without much success. Finally we made a trip 
together high up into the hills of Matouba to visit an old negro called 
Pére Lownisky living on the slopes of the Soufriére. This old man 
in his early youth had often hunted Diablotins and had joined several 
of the large parties which had camped on the Nez Cassé to dig out 
the Diablotins from their burrows. Since Pére Lownisky had spent 
his entire life in Matouba he knew all the old breeding grounds of the 
Black-capped Petrels. He told us that the Diablotins formerly bred 
on the north and northeast slope of Nez Cassé. The birds arrived 
in late September and the period of incubation for the colony as a 
