Though actual families, including presumably a ♂, of four are to be seen, they are considerably rarer than parties of 1 adult and 2 juveniles, or even than 2 adults and 1 juvenile (though the latter is rare also and probably only occurs towards the end of the breeding season.) Observe believes that what actually happens is that mates have several mates in a season and consequently breeding birds are found late in the season. From what natives tell me and my own observa- tions I believe this to be so at present, and even in the days when numbers were more plentiful there was a ♀ preponder- ance-to a very much less numerous extent one male had more than one mate a season, though each ♀ or family consisted of a completely separate circle or group and makes never prac- ticed actually polygamy till the first female had commenced to brood. The actual rearing of young thus devolved on the ♀ parent, except in the case of the last brood of the season when the ♂ remained with the mate and assisted in rearing the young. From what natives told me of numbers of young etc. when the bird was plentiful and they were watching it closely to make captures, and from what I myself noted, numbers of young in one family towards the end of the season are more numerous than earlier in the season, seemingly pointing to more food being available for young to be reared on or more food procurers on the jobs. Even so, I believe a male returns to the same bird or birds to breed in the following season. The community is as it were, one male at the head or with one, two or three (and at present possibly more than three) sepa- rate individual families one after the other or even slightly overlapping during the breeding season, from November to