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LALAGE LEUCOPYGIA MONTROSIERI:-(VERREAUX&DESMURS)
A.M.N.H. has SEVEN (7). Wants FOUR (4).
Exchange value. GOOD. Total Permit No EIGHT (8). c/o for Honma. R.
Remarks.
6/3/39. Did not appear common in forest, only seen there. Is Common
in more open country.
14/3/39. Is present in forest but does not appear very plentiful
though in friver weather it may appear more.
15/3/39. One or two seen, feeding high in leaf canopy. (Fruit?)
16/3/39. about half a dozen seen, fairly numerous in forest eventually.
17/3/39. Very few seen during very wet day.
20/3/39. Only one seen in short time.
24/3/39. One seen + shot. Appears to live almost entirely in the upper leaf
Canopy. Apparently a fine weather bird.
27/3/39. Several seen + heard.
28/3/39. One seen feeding low, several seen high up.
30/3/39. Several seen feeding low in forest. Active in sun.
WAIRU 4/5/39. Seen fairly common all over area.
20/5/39. A few seen but numbers vary moves a lot about the
district, probably following hatches of caterpillars.
12/6/39. Note this species feeds actually on the ground in open grass
paddocks. Apparently on caterpillars too on. Feeds also in
+ on low shrubs.
17/6/39. Not as common on flats as previous days + sly +
nervous..
19/6/39. Common again + actively feeding.
20/6/39. Not as common on flats this morning.