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to prefer the hot scrubby fields to the streams and swamps, although 
some are always to be found about the mangroves. 
42. TROGLODYTES GUADELOUPENSIS (Cory). 
Rossignol. 
One adult female taken July 13th, near Ste. Rose. 
This species is now practically extinct owing to the Mongoose. 
Twenty-five years ago the bird was widely distributed all over the 
island, and like the House Wren would frequent the gardens about 
the villages. For more than ten years it has been extremely rare and 
local, found only in the high woods which have been more or less 
cut over. Although I visited over a dozen distinct localities on 
Guadeloupe it was only seen on the wooded hills back of Ste. Rose. 
It was in the evening, shortly after the sun had set that I heard for 
the first time the song of this wren. It was long and varied with more 
of a warbler quality than that of a wren. But the profusion and 
bubbling merriment of the song could be given only by a wren. As I 
advanced through the brush, the bird darted off to a fallen log, ran 
nimbly along it, hopped into a low tree and began to flit upwards from 
one branch to the next till it had reached the top. Then it flew off to 
another tree to again start its spiral climb upwards. When finally 
shot it proved to be a female, and although unsuspected until the 
specimen was dissected I had probably been following a pair of wrens 
and not a single individual. 
43. CINCLOCERTHIA RUFICAUDA TREMULA (Lafresnaye). 
Trembleur. Grive Trombleuse. 
Eight specimens, adults and half-grown individuals, taken through- 
out July and the latter part of August from the Soufriére, Ste. Rose, 
and Goyave. 
Confined entirely to the deep woods, this bird is one of the few 
species one meets while struggling througli the forest. When flushed 
from the ground where it is habitually to be found, it flits up to a low 
branch and begins to shake as if in the grasp of a tropical fever. At 
