Clapp, Roger 1964 2 One of the small bluer gray Kingfishers (Halycon chloris) was seen to fly from the edge of a bank with a small green lizard in its bill. The bird subsequently flew to its nest in the bank and was greeted by a chorus of young birds. The lizard which was about 2 inches long was apparently intended as food for them. On a second trip the Kingfisher brought a katydid - bettigoniid type grasshopper to the young. At the top of the pass was a shorebird in a small 100 square yard area filled with short-grasses and muddy ground. As it flushed it gave the call notes of a Wandering Tattler. While the swiftlets are usually silent sailing by on slightly down bent wings, occasionally they give a high pitched "twi-tweet" note. Their flight is much more leisurely and graceful than that of the chimney swift. This species sails more. The Kingfisher nest was located at the top of a 40 foot rock and earth cliff and was dug under the rootlets where the soil overhung the edge of the cliff. Upon another occasion the Kingfisher brought another grasshopper this one green in front with reddish tegma. From the way the bird fed the young at the entrance of the burrow (the young having clambered to the burrow entrance) it seems that the young are probably fairly far along in their development. During the period in which the adult is absent from the nest the young constantly keep up a buzzy-rasping "aaah" note which makes the nest site very conspicuous.