the breeding months. According to native accounts and by 2 old nests seen by me, the species invariably nests in a tall tree in dense forest, almost always selecting a single barrel type of tree with small side branches on it, of a type like this diagram and the nest placed near the extreme top of the tree where small close rings of branches occur. Nest of sticks, bark and fibres lined with feathers, and fine materials, deep cup. Eggs said by natives to be only 2 in number and a light brown, much blotched with reddish brown. Observer has never seen the eggs. The same nest site is used if not disturbed and I have seen an old nest under a newer nest. I believe birds renovate last year's nests and use them again in many instances by nests I have examined which natives have said were in use to their knowledge 2 years previously. When seen by me they were in such good repair that they must have been in use fairly re- cently and there were no signs of an old nest underneath. Observer does not know and could not get any reliable data from natives about incubation periods. Young birds seldom appear before the latter half of August and mostly in early September and then only as nestlings. None leave the nest before the end of September and early October mostly. HYPOTAENIDIA PHILIPPENSIS SWINDELSI:- This species is commong on the island and very plentiful in the taru cultivation swamps where it suffers a great deal from persecu- tion by dogs and to a less degree from humans. Human