the heat of the day. It was not invariable but one could generally bank on finding a pair of birds during the heat of the day perched in or about the one small area often near a nest site but as often as not as far as was known to observer, nowhere near a nest site. They returned regularly to the one place each night to roost also. Another point possibly worth mentioning is the difficulty of collecting the species from the damage point of view. The greatest number of birds one sees are at ranges too close for ordinary 410 or 20 bore cartridges and shooting with 32 calibre dust shot was only tried once and as it was at close range and failed observer did not attempt it again in case it only wounded or badly damaged a bird which might die later elsewhere and no unnecessary taking of life amongst this rare species was ever indulged in nor advisable. Also this species loses feathers very easily and in falling from a branch only 10 or 15 feet up would lose feathers on every branch it hit in falling and a small cloud of them would fly up when the specimen hit the ground. This characteristic was so marked that observer believes this species has a form of escape feathers and if attacked by a hawk, might escap by the feathers coming out and baffling the grip of a bird of prey to a certain extent. Certainly if a strike by a bird of prey were made anywhere over the rump, feathers would come out in a handful. The bird itself may have some slight power of release of these feathers by control oo the skin at their bases, but that would be difficult to prove one way or the other. They certainly never seem to lose any feathers when playing and at such times they take considerable knocks from twigs and each other, but when short, lose feathers from the impact of the bullet on-wards and even to pick up a badly wounded still bird is to