250-350 birds in 1938). Writer offered natives considerable amounts to capture specimens for him either by snaring or shooting, yet natives were all of the opinion that they might be so long making a single capture and so many days might be spent in fruitless search that the eventual pay per day of work expended would not be worth while and might even be total loss as the chances were that complete failure would result. I paid numbers of natives full days to work in conjunction with me to collect secimens, but on 8 out of 11 days no birds were seen nor reports of them heard 1 day reports were heard, 1 day 1 was seen and 1 day 2 were seen. This work covered the greater part of the island suitable for the birds and a large portion of the unsuitable and gives a fair idea of the true status of the species if allowance is made for birds unseen. Dogs were used in numbers rather unsuccessfully but by the visible signs the birds simply were not present except in very small numbers. Two specimens were collected casually when not especially after species, more or less accidental, and most of the few sight records of the birds were made at similar times but the total of even sight records was very small considering the amount of territory covered and the constant almost daily work in all types of country over a long period (February-June). MAYR QUESTION:- Habitats, woodland (?) swamps, second growth? ANSWER:- Yes to both questions, add gardens as main Uvean habitat. PTILINOPUS GREYI (GRAY):- The commonest species of pigeon on the island and is fairly numerous, but numbers