forest, but individual birds or pairs seemed at times for no reason at all to go quite against this general rule, though on the same day the bulk of the birds conformed to it. During my stay on Uvea, I found no birds breeding (eggs) but the birds had just finished breeding and juveniles were quite numerous in varying stages. I have no doubt that during the first week or two of my stay, odd rare birds were brooding late in the season (February) as the age of certain young ones I saw later, seemed to point to this. Ninety per cent of the birds breed during November-December, and a hurricane coming in January would cause a heavy mortality in young. It is just possible a few birds breed twice in the year, but to do so naturally, is, I believe rare and unusual. If something were to destroy or rob them of the first or ordinary brood the birds would breed again and this fact was known and exploited by native capturers in days gone by. The late breeding birds I noticed, had not I believe been robbed in some way, of a previous clutch or family, but were ♀'s which had no full time mate and had had to wait till properly mated females were brooding and attached males could go on the loose and attend to their wants. Because of the great female preponderance, I fully expected to find infertile addled eggs in hollows somewhere in old nest sites, but strangely did not find any. It would seem probable with the status of the species the way it is that such would be the case, and I can only conclude that either after giving up brooding when eggs fail to hatch, crabs, lizards, snakes or rats do away with the eggs and ants clean up the mess, or the greater part of the females manage to be served and have fertile eggs and the few which do not (if any) do not lay or have the nesting impulse.