BIRDS - NEW CALEDONIA L. Macmillan Page 37 Tuesday, 28th, March, 1939. WEATHER: Fine clear sunny, beautiful day after cold clear night. Clouds 10%. Cloud carry slow from SSW. BIRDS: The birds this morning did not commence feeding till late. There was little or no feeding or movement till the sun was above the horizon, about 6 a.m. Even the early feeding species did not move till the air had warmed up a little. The temp. must have been in the low sixties or top fifties. Once the sun was up the birds simply reveled in the delightful day, numbers were seen sunning themselves on the high est branches of the tallest trees. Nymphicus: Two of this species were seen sunning and playing on the topmost branches of a kauri. They bowed to each other and called in low chuckles, then one would move towards the other and at close range they would bow again to each other, they would then move apart again and go through the same performance again. It was evident they were enjoying the sunlight. One was shot but lost in the underbrush. Nearby in an old dead tree a hollow in the main trunk with beak marks about it was found but no definate proof of it being a Nymphicus nest were found. Several other parties of birds were seen elsewhere. Charmosyna: One of these species was seen and shot. Strangely the bird seemed to be attracted by lure calls for Pachycephala. The bird was in the lower second growth of the tall forest and did not seem afraid of observer. It was far too close for shooting and I was tempted to use the .32 cal. Morris Tube on it, but seeing it was the first definite record of the species I waited till it moved to about 20 ft. away and shot it. Later in a dead tree near by I found a nesting hollow with beak marks about it but no proof of the species, beyond the strangely quiet behaviour of the bird, which seemed hard to account for unless it was a nesting hollow of the bird.