canopy. Breeds on the island from October to February, mostly about December, I believe. Eggs 2, Colour as on Mare, green with blotches. Nest identical with Mare Is. more cup-shaped than on Tanna. MAYR QUESTION:- Habitat Forest (?). ANSWER:- Yes and elsewhere as above right down to sea level and margin if vegetation is present and at all altitudes from the ground upwards to above the tree- tops. Often flys in play well above coconuts calling and fanning its tail. Favours banyan trees. QUESTION:- Food Caterpillars, small fruit (?) ANSWER:- Yes, fruit and berries, quite a lot, especially the 3 small fruited fig banyans (red, yellow and purplish small fruited and leaved variety of banyan). The bird is almost always to be found in and about these banyans. Observer believes they originally became fruit eating because these banyan fruits and other berries often have a large number of weevils or insects inside them (which have entered generally at the eye nipple on the end) and the bird found swallowing whole fruit the easiest form of capture in bulk. Now it eats fruits with- out insects inside. It prefers insects and caterpillars but fills up on fruits and berries, probably finds this food more easily obtained at most seasons. Probably why the species is so plentiful is because at hurricane times when all fruit is destroyed, insects increase and it lives then wholly on such, thus not feeling any lack of food on the rather infertile island because of large supplies of insects at such seasons does not have to compete to so