areas where it mostly nests. All accounts and records obtained of nests (about 5 reliable cases)seemed to prove the bird was identical in these habits to other areas it frequents. Nests being the usual scanty platform of twigs placed on a horizontal branch, pandanus clumb or some secondary level growth in forest 10 to 20 feet above the ground. Egg 1 (white). Probably invariably one in the face of food shortages. Apparently the bird becomes more plentiful about November, December and commences breeding in those months, all being in full breeding in September. It probably arrives there in October and November. All birds having crossed by the end of November and possibly earlier. The majority leave in March probably only late nesters leaving after that and young ones generally re- main. These late birds and young feed on vine seeds (hard like corn and about the same size) and on fruits of unusual food trees, some being fruits a species of trees generally only found growing along seas beach margins, such trees depend on water (sea currents) to carry their seeds and propogate them on other islands in many cases. Also the young of the species becomes somewhat like Chalcophaps in feeding on the ground on fallen hard seeds of fruit etc. I have no doubt mortality especially of young is very high, especially from native pot persecution, as though natives say they are thin and not worth eating, I cannot imagine an Uvean saying no to a feed of Columba poor and thin as it might be. A certain number of adults remain all the year but probably very few and the number probably varies accord- ing to seasons, non-hurricane years being years of more