ACCIPITER FASCIATUS VIGILAX (WETMORE):- A fairly common species on Uvea and is increasing. Is exactly similar in habits to birds elsewhere on Mare and Lifu. Feeds much on native and domestic poultry, especially during August and September when it has young. Natives say it is useless to have domestic chicken at that time of the year. Its perching first and striking from a long motionless glide from a perched position and never from the wing is the same on Uvea. When on the wing high up it is not hunting but playing and is full and not hungry. When hunting it hunts below tree level slipping silently from perch to perch, amongst coconut palms mostly on Uvea which is an ideal habitat for it, and then striking from a motionless perch often of long duration. It feeds on small birds, lizards, rats, mice, large insects and domestic poultry (chickens and ducks etc.). When on the ground with a kill it has the habit of jumping up and looking around for approach of danger. It seldom appears to eat its kill in a tree but goes to the ground almost invariably. It is a ruthless and savage hunter especially when with nestlings, but is an exceedingly alert and wary bird. Juvenies do not outnumber adults on Uvea at any time from what I could gather, and certainly not from February to June. In fact I saw very very few juveniles at all. I imagine the observer who made this note did so from the numbers of skins collected. Juveniles, being less wary than adults, would be more easily collected. My experience was the other way and the juveniles were outnumbered considerably. Females hunt more in the open types