BIRDS - NEW CALEDONIA L. Macmillan Page 122 TAO AREA: Coastal NW Mountains, (Mt. Panie Area) Tuesday, 1st August, 1939 Weather: Sun and cloud, light west wind, clouds 60%. Habitat: Kauri pine forests at above 5 thousand feet A.S.L. Mountain top. Philemon l.: Philemon: Female AD, 1/2 minus, repose. SOFT PARTS: Usual SHOT: 12:30 P.M. SKL: C.O. MOULT: Nil WGHT: 49.5 gms. STM: 1/4 chewed blossoms of mountain shrub. ABR: W/T: nil. Some transport damage. AEGOTHELES s.: Aegotheles: Female AD., 1/1 plus., diam. largest oocyte 3.5mm., 2nd. 3mm. and many others a little less. Damaged gonads. This specimen was collected on the coastal flats as the party were returning along the coast after descending from the summit of Mt. Panie. The gun was loaded with large shot for flying-foxes and resulted in considerable shot damage to the specimen. Many feathers on the breast being carried clean away. A great number of stitches had to be made in the skin and both wings were damaged, but a rather poor quality skin was made from the remenants. IRIS: pale transparent pinkish, mauveish tint with the light at certain angles. Eyelid edge, dull brownish. BILL: Warm black, brownish tint towards base. LEGS & FEET: Nigger brown shading to black at the toe tips. TOES: dark horn with a comb on the inside of the middle claw. SHOT: 8:30 a.m. One day past full moon. WGHT: 77.3 gms. (? damage) SKL: C.O. MOULT: W. r&l. shot dam. TL: covs 0. Body: nape 0. WING: 183. TAIL: 136 STM: 1/1, flower frequenting night-moths. ABR: W/T. nil NATIVE NAME: KAPA-RU-ITCHEN. NOTES: This species to this observer seems more akin to Eurostopodus of Australia or to Caprimulgus of that country than to Aegotheles. It has the white on the chin divided as has C. but is darker on the back being more like Cayley's plate VII. (What Bird Is That). No. 21. The greyish markings are very large and