BIRDS - NEW CALEDONIA L. Macmillan Page 96 also 3 blues making five in all seen. Whites are said to appear very rarely but are more common up the coast a little way. Nycticorax: said to be present but not common. Haliastur: 2 seen flying high. Accipiter hap. said to be present but not common near the sea. Accipiter fasc; said to be present and common. Pandion: said to be present and has a nest in a dry tree on the steep hillsides about 200 ft. a.s.l. Falco: said to be present and feeds on the sea birds: Porphyrio: Said to be present but not common. Phaenorrhina: said to be abundant on the hills. Cyanoramphus: said to be present on the hills. Trichoglossus: seems to be fairly abundant. Chalcities: several heard calling. Aegotheles: Said to be present but is not abundant, this is the first definate trace of the bird in New Cal. Collocalia: 2 species present and fairly abundant, Halcyon: present and abundant, appears the same as elsewhere. Lalage: Present and common. Edolisoms: Said to be present on the mountains. Coracina: Present but not common. Megalurulus: Present and is common but appears larger than in the Wailu area. Does not answer to the same lure calls as in that area. Gerygone: Present and common. appears large. Rhipidura spil: rare near coast but will probably be present in the hill forests. One was seen near the coast. Rhipidura flab: Common about coast. Myiagra: Present about the coast but not very abundant apparently. Pachycephala rufi: Common about coastal scrubs. Artamus: common. Corvus: Common. Philemon: Common about coast. Leptomyza: said to be common in forests. Guadalcanaria: Common about coast and appears very large. Lichmera: Fairly common in area but not excessively abundant. Myzomela: said to be common in the forest.