foster parents of the species on the island. Occasionally Myzomela and Lichmera may be parasited, but such cases are very rare and more or less accidental in observer's opinion. CHALCITIES LUCIDUS LAYARDI (MATHEWS):- When observer first arrived on Uvea he thought this species was almost absent or exceedingly rare, but later observations led him to the conclusion that the birds were only rather silent at that season (February, early March) and not call- ing much. It never became very plentiful on the island in comparison with numbers on Mare Island, but during April, May and June, numbers were quite in accord with what one would expect on the island taking into consideration food and the numbers of its foster species. It is rather shy and wary. Males generally perch high on an exposed dead twig, often protruding from a clump of green leaves, or a dead tree, and call much from that position, the usual thin, high note, though often somewhat more robust than the calls on Mare, (but in that observer may be wrong and the greater number of immature calls on Mare may be responsible for this impression). Females are generally found low down near the ground and seldom call, mostly passing silently through the scrubs, close to the ground (up to 5 ft. generally within 3 ft.). Both sexes feed generally within 10 feet off the ground and more often within 5 ft. off the ground. When resting in the heat of the day and not calling ♂ gene- rally perch 10 feet or a little more above the ground, ♀ often within 2 and 3 feet and seldom above 4 feet and almost never above 8 feet from the ground. This species is fairly common in and about the mangroves of the tidal lagoon arms,