EXTERMINATED ANIMALS 7 
were used for the cloaks of the native chiefs. About four 
specimens are known to be preserved in museums. 
Of birds that have been locally exterminated, such as 
the burrowing petrel (Oestrelata haesitata), known in the 
Antilles as the diablotin, it is not our intention to speak 
on this occasion. This article may accordingly be fitly 
brought to a close by an extract from Prof. A. Newton’s 
“Dictionary of Birds,” referring to two instances where 
species may have perished within the century without 
having ever come definitely under the notice of ornitho- 
logists, After stating that one Ledru accompanied an 
expedition dispatched by the French Government in 1796 to 
the West Indies, the Professor proceeds to observe that 
this explorer “gives a list of the birds he found in the 
islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix. He enumerates 
fourteen kinds of birds as having occurred to him then. 
Of these there is now no trace of eight of the number ; 
and, if he is to be believed, it must be supposed that 
within fifty or sixty years of his having been assured 
of their existence they have become extinct... . If this 
be not enough, we may cite the case of the French islands 
of Guadeloupe and Martinique, in which, according to 
M. Guyon, there were once found six species of Psittaci, 
all now exterminated; and it may possibly be that the 
macaws, stated by Messrs. Gosse and March to have 
formerly frequented certain parts of Jamaica, but not 
apparently noticed there for many years, have fallen victims 
to colonisation and its consequences.” 
