ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 
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The island of Guadalupe is situated otf the coast of Lower Cali- 
fornia, between latitude 28° 45' and 29° 10' north, and about two 
hundred and twenty miles southwest from San Diego. Until very 
recently nothing was known regarding the ornithology of this island, 
but in the spring of 1875 a collection of birds was made by Dr. 
Edward Palmer, and forwarded to the National Museum at Wash- 
ington. This collection, embracing eight species and seventy-two 
specimens of land-birds, was placed in the hands of the writer for 
identification, ’and reported upon in the Bulletin of the U. S. Geo- 
logical and Geographical Survey of the Territories, Vol. II, No. 2, 
April 1, 1876 (pp. 183-195).* 
As above stated, the land-birds contained in the collection from 
Guadalupe embrace only eight species, so that the fauna of the 
island is by no means fully represented ; indeed, the collector ob- 
served a Humming-Bird, two kinds of Owls, and a Hawk, of which 
no specimens were obtained. This is to be regretted, since most, if 
not all, of these would doubtless have proved new. It is altogether 
likely, too, that other species escaped notice, and thus remain to 
be discovered ; a rich field is therefore left to the future explorer. 
The affinities of the birds of Guadalupe are, so far as known, almost 
entirely with those of Western North America, there being no 
peculiar types, each species having a more or less closely related 
representative on the continent. The species thus far known are 
the following, their continental representatives being given oppo- 
site : — 
Guadalupe Species. Mainland Representatives. 
Sylviidae. 
1. Kegulus obscurus. Eegulus calendula. 
of the plumage. The following remarks by Mr. Salvin are those which refer 
more particularly to these peculiarities : — 
“ In the formation of its hill, it [^Geospiza'] hardly differs at all from some spe- 
cies of Guiraca, as G. concreta and its allies. The legs and feet, however, are 
much longer and stronger than in any species of Guiraca ; and the tail in pro- 
portion to the wings is very short” (1. c., p. 478). 
“ From Conirostrum [the continental representative genusl Certhidea [of the 
Galapagos] differs in having much shorter wings and tail” (1. c., p. 476). 
{^Italics our own.'] 
* Ornithology of Guadeloupe [lege Guadalupe] Island. Based on Notes and 
Collections made by Dr. Edward Palmer. 
