81. lose feathers for sure, which will stick to and come out on only a moist hand. Once the bird is dead this is not the case and once the body is cold it may be handled fairly roughly without losing feathers, though in skinning a few are bound to be lose. This difficulty of damage in shooting made me collect most of my specimens as high as possible in the teak trees when they perched high up during the middle of the day. I collected a few at lower levels and found ♀ predominated at all levels and believe this is true for the whole race on the island, possibly nature's way of increasing them again, rapidly as a single male could serve several females. Actually I saw no true proof of such happening, but several times I saw a single adult with 2 or one juvenile and in the only case of shooting such it proved to be a ♀ adult. The pair of well grown orphans stayed about the area and were often observed but never once had another adult with them and as I only collected 1 adult ♂ and that far from that area, either the female parent never had a full time mate or it had died from natural cause. Actually I doubt hawks or natural enemies effect this species very much and probably capture very few of these wide awake, cautious birds. I saw no evidences of a single capture or feathers etc. about to point to such inci- dences occurring. If they do they must be few and far between. Doubtless when the young birds are more or less helpless in the nests a few may be destroyed by such natural enemies as snakes and rats, and to a greater extent eggs would suffer but I very much doubt losses from such causes are very great. The greatest danger is from cyclones accompanied by heavy rains which would drown young in their nests. Natives say snakes often occupy hollows in which birds nest, but found no one single instance