spots generally not plentiful except about zone if one is present. Incubation about 8 to 11 days I believe. (SEE ALSO NOTES SPEC. SPECIES AND ZONES BIRDLIFE.) MAYR QUESTION: Habitat. Forest (?) ANSWER: Only margins unless coconuts are present when it will be found in them and forest close about. An almost invariable rule. Food "Insects and nectar (?). Both in about a 60-40 per cent ratio on Uvea. Nectar is invariably vomited on shooting and can only be traced in the stomach by tasting with the tongue, though large drops of it often come out on feathers. If shot against the sun a glint of light may be seen on the shower of drops and sometimes even a jet of nectar as it is vomited at the second of shot impact. I have seen birds often vomit when suddenly frightened either by being suddenly attacked by another Lichmera or by a hawk passing overhead or by the sudden impact of an arrow or stone alongside it. I once had a spot of this fall on my hand and several times on my face or clothes, and on tasting it was definitely nectar. (Once it was not nectar, but I didn't tast it that time as it was easily classified). Doubt- less insects attracted to the nectar and in it are also eaten, but as stated, the species eats numberless other kinds of insects providing they are small, evidently because of the tiny stomach the species has. I am not sure whether it is an insect eater which has turned to nectar eating, or a nectar eater turned to insect eating, but think it is the latter. Probably another case of "hurricane area" bird economics. Hurricanes destroy all the flowers and vegetation which does