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 106 THE CONDOR VoL. X adults, taken from May 1 to June 18. Many adult males in this series are in the yellow phase of plumage. The house finch is by far the commonest bird of the island. Mr. Brown has sent us the following account of it: "On our arrival--May 1--well grown young were about with the old birds, and at that time the house finches were scattered about in large numbers all over the island. On the cliffs and about the rocks near the landing there were several hundred of them. Late in June they gathered in flocks and all left the lower altitudes, even those, some thirty or forty, that had been living about our cabins. Empty nests were found in a variety of situations, in the pines and cypresses, in cactus plants, and in crevices in the rocks. Their food seemed to consist chiefly of grass seeds and insects, but the birds that lived near our .cabins were very partial to goat meat and made our meat-shed their head- quarters. ' ' Junc0 insularis Ridg. A large series, including young and adults, was taken from May 4 to June 18. The Guadaloupe junco, a very tame, confiding little bird, is fairly abundant throughout the island, though more numerous at high altitudes--in the cypress groves, the pine woods and among the oaks. A few, however, breed down even to sea level. One pair was feeding its young among the rocks on the beach at the landing. At the time of Mr. Brown's arrival--May 1--full grown young were about. One nest only in which there were still young birds, four in number, was found. This was placed on a lower branch of a pine, was bulky and made mostly of dried grass stems. BIRDS PROBABLY NOW EXTINCT P01yb0rus lut0sus Ridg. When Beck visited Guadaloupe in 1900-1901 the Caracara still occurred in the island, though probably in small numbers. It ap- pears now to be entirely extinct. During two months spent in Ouadaloupe by. Brown and Marsden the island was ransacked from end to end, but no trace of the caracara could be found. Goats were killed and left at various points on the island, especially upon the high, open tableland, where the caracaras, had there been any, must have detected them, but nothing came to any of the many carcasses that were thus exposed. Thry0manes brevicaudus Ridg. Writing in THE CONDOR in May, 1901, A. W. Anthony gave it as his opinion that the Guadaloupe wren was extinct. It undoubtedly is, Brown and Marsden hunting in vain every spot where it might possibly have survived. Pipi10 c0ns0brinus Ridg. In the same article in which Anthony refers to the Guadaloupe wren as "among those that were", he mentions the towhee, saying that it is "now nearly or quite extinct." Unfortunately there can no lohger be any doubt of the complete extermination of this strongly characterized island species. If there had been a living individual, we feel sure it could not have es- caped the close scrutiny of two such experienced field collectors as Brown and Marsden, who searched the whole island for two months, the towhee being one of the birds they especially sought. 3oston, Jlffassachuselts.