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 104 THE CONDOR VoL. X end of the island. They were very shy and we were unable to secure either of them. ' ' Buteo broealiscalurus (Cass.). Three fine specimens taken by Brown and Marsden prove that the red-tailed hawk of Guadaloupe is true 2]. borealis caiurus. Mr. Brown says of it: "A few pairs frequented the high pine woods of the fiorth ridge. Although we searched very carefully we found no nests either in the pines or the cypresses and I think they must breed along the precipices." Cerchneis sparveria phalcena (Lesson). Fourteen sldns, young and adults, May 13 to June 19. These do not differ from specimens from northern California and elsewhere on the mainland within the range of the subspecies. Mr. Brown writes that the sparrow hawk is "tolerably common in Guadaloupe and very shy. Its food consists chiefly of mice (Mus musculus) but it also catches and eats house finches, juncos and rock wrens. They nest along the cliffs. Young fully able to fly were about by June 10." Iteteractitis incanus (Gruel.). One male, in unspotted plumage, was taken May 5. It was alone on the beach near the landing, feeding among the rocks al- most in the surf. Crymophilus fulicarius (Linn.). One female, taken June 27. This is a late date upon which to find the red phalarape so far south, and the bird was probably a stray. Larus occidentalis Aud. One adult female, taken May 4. Mr. Brown says "a flock of about ten individuals lived on and about the beach near the landing, and others were seen at the southern end of the island. I think they nest on the shelves of the perpendicular cliffs." Ptychoramphus aleuticus (Pall.). One female was taken June 28. Mr. Brown's notes say of this species: "A few were constantly seen at sea off the south- ern end of the island, and on shore we found a number of dead ones rolled up above the surf." Micruria hypoleuca (Xantus). Two females were taken at sea off Guadaloupe June 27. One of these was moulting its primaries and was unable to fly. Speotyto cunicularia hypogea (Bp.). Speolylo cunicularia becki Rothschild and Harterr, Novit. Zool., Vol. IX, p. 405, July 1902: Guadaloupe Island. Twenty-seven specimens, young and adults, May 6 to June 17. The burrowing owl of Guadaloupe is absolutely indistinguishable in .any way from the subspecies hypogcea of the mainland. Mr. E. W. Nelson also reached this conclusion several years ago, when he compared with mainland specimens, the large series from Guadaloupe then in the collection of the California Academy of Sciences. Mr. Brown's notes on the burrowing owl are as follows: "Very common in the high, open, rocky country of the tablelands, but not found in the pine or cypress woods. It is mostly nocturnal in its habits, though several times I saw it hunting grasshoppers during the day. We found several nests in holes among the rocks, all containing young nearly full grown. One nest in which there were five young birds, contained, besides, eighteen freshly killed mice and the remains of many others. While mice seem to be its chief diet, I found in the stomachs of some of the ones I skinned remains of beetles and grasshoppers. Its cry, which is not un- pleasing, is always to be heard on dark nights mingled with the voices of petrels and shearwaters.' ' Colaptes rufipileus Ridg. A series of skins was secured on dates ranging from May 6 to June 19, and six sets of eggs May 8 to June 8. This well-marked island form is in all probability doomed to speedy extinction,