OIINITHOLOGY OF GUADELOUFE ISLAND, BASED ON NOTES 
AND COLLECTIONS MADE BY DK. EDWARD PALMER. 
liv Roiuokt Ridgway. 
The small collection of birds transmitted to the National Museum by 
Dr. Palmer is very interesting, from the fact that every one of the resi¬ 
dent species is distinct from any found on the neighboring main-land, 
although each has a continental representative more or less nearly 
related. The collection is said to include all the species of land-birds 
found on the island, with the exception of a humming-bird, a hawk, and 
two kinds of owls^ no specimens of which w ere obtained. 
While the peculiar facies of this local insular fauna is very strongly 
marked, it is a noteworthy fact that among the Passeres, when there is 
any similarity to continental forms, the closest resemblance is to the 
Rocky Mountain or Middle Province races, instead of those of the neigh¬ 
boring Pacific coast. Thus, the Junco^ the Thryomanes, and the Carpo- 
daeiis are much more like J. amiectens, T. betvichi leucogaster, and C. 
frontalis frontalis than J. oregonns, T. hewicM spiluriis^ and C. frontalis. 
rJiodocolpns of the coast district. It is still more remarkable that the 
Polyborus should, while distinct from either, be more like the species 
from southern South America (P. tliarus) than that from Lower Cali¬ 
fornia and other portions of Middle America (P. cheriway). 
It is much to be regretted that the notes accompanying the specimens 
are so meagre; they only furnish the information that the position of 
Guadeloupe is between latitude 28° 45' and 29° 10' north, and off the 
coast of liOwer California, two hundred and twenty miles southwest from 
San Diego. 
The land-birds ascertained by Dr. Palmer to inhabit the island during 
the breeding-season are the following:— 
Pam. SYLVIID..R. 
1. Eegulus calendula obscurus 7iobis. 
Fam. TRoaLODYTiD^R. 
Salpinctes dbsoletus guadeloupensis iiobls. 
3. Thryomanes brevicauda nobis. 
Fam. Fringillid.r. 
4. Carpodacus am pi us 7iobis. 
5. Junco insularis nobis. 
G. Pipilo maculatus consobrinus nobis. 
Fam. Trociiilid^e. 
7. -? (Unidentified.) 
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