Rare glimpses of it were caught against the bases of turrocks in patchy spots and by lying down amongst tussocks with a very limited range close about some occasional glimpses of the bird were obtained. It has exceedingly sharp eyesight and at the least movement it simple vanishes. I placed a big price on the bird if any native would bring me one and for many days packs of school children and dogs hunted the swamps unsuccessfully. Many young Hypotaenidia (black fluff ball stage) were brought me as OIH-NEI-DU and called such by many children and natives, but older natives were emphatic that they were not true OIH-NEI-DU. The older men admitted that only latterly the name was being often used wrongly for the young of Hypotaenidia, and a local missionary verified this for me. The same missionary years ago saw one and remembered the very red eye but was sure the back was not rufous tinged. As well as he could remember "the whole bird was more of a blue black with pale pink legs, rather short legs and a short bill, and a very very red eye." (his own words) Hence I place the bird as P. tabuensis or a very close relative. In view of the fact that I definitely know P. tabuensis is present on Mare Island and Lifu it is more than likely it is the same on Uvea, but make the observation that the Uvea bird might be a variant, because of descriptive differences and mainly because of very different habits to those known by me elsewhere for this species.