village to village or direct to garden routes) on the whole island and the fact that they look more to the lagoon for food than to the forest has created the impression that the bird has long been extinct or almost so. Such is not the case and actually with no heavy mortality from hurricanes and a freedom from live bird fancier cum native persecution within a year or two the bird will become very plentiful again and re-occupy areas where it only at present visits. This it is already commencing to do and very soon it will begin by its more frequent appearance in such areas to at- tract the unwelcome notice of natives and whites. When observing this species one needs to use great caution and as the bulk of observation has to be done in dense tall forests it is difficult to move silently in such sur- roundings and a good plan whenever making any movements is to imitate the calls of some noisy species of bird. Pachyaphala or Aplonis being easy and inclined to be noisy are probably the best ones to imitate. Observer's success after adopting this plan and his comparative failure before seem to point to the efficiency of such a ruse. After adopting this plan my results were good and I several times had birds under observation for an hour and even up to four hours at a stretch and was able to follow them if they moved from one small area, providing I took care and they did not move too far. To re- establish contact at such times was slow as once lost sight of it is advisable to wait for calls and move only immediately after or during them so that one does not stumble on them unawares when they will invariably see observer first, give an alarm or silently disappear and successfully avoid any