cultivation swamps, native gardens even in dry areas and well inland, in fact almost everywhere on the island ex- cept forest, where though plentiful, its numbers are not so great as elsewhere. Nesting and general habits are usual, nest being in a hollow limb, eggs 4 white. Season very long, from October to April and even some outside those months. MAYR QUESTION:- Habitat Near the beach (?), forest native gardens (?). ANSWER:- On Uvea in all 3, least plentiful in forest. Is very common in coconuts and iron woods (casuarina) about beaches, on rocks and reef at low tide, on sand beaches etc. Has spread all along the western island chains and appears on Beaupre Is. Inhabits natives' gardens a great deal, often 1 and up to 3 pairs (and for large gardens more) of sepa- rate family parties inhabiting one individual garden area, spending most of their time in and about it. LALAGE LEUCOPYGIA SIMILLIMA (SARASIN:- A very common and plentiful species on the island found in numbers in every type of country except claypan areas, though even in that area it is about the most plentiful bird. Feeds in great numbers in swamps under cultivation or fallow and is fairly plentiful in natural swamps. exceedingly plentiful in gardens and low forest and tall forests and very numerous in coconut, at most times and always a few found about coconuts. This is about the only species fairly numerous in the low wind blown scrub on the east coast where it feeds on top of the leaf