134- Dircflor s Annual Acj-orf. 



Himatione sanguinea (Gmel.). Apapane. 



The Apapane is fairly common on Kauai. Several flocks of 

 from five to fifteen individuals were seen feeding on a single koa or 

 oliia tree. The bird is far more abundant on Kauai than on Oahu. 



Chlorodrepanis stejnegeri (Wilson). Kauai Amakihi. 



Of this sturd}' species only four examples were taken. All the 

 specimens seen were feeding among the flowers of the ohia growing 

 at an elevation of not less than 4000 feet. None were noted about 

 Kaholuamano. Doubtless they were more plentiful towards the 

 summit of Waialeale, but the rainy season was on and as a result 

 the whole forest was one all but impassable quagmire, in which it 

 is perilous to even follow the rude trail, to say nothing of taking 

 the chances ot losing it in the dense fogs and rains which envelope 

 the summit almost continuously. 



Chlorodrepanis parva (Stejn.). 



Perhaps the most interesting series of skins secured during the 

 trip was of this species. About Kaholuamano they were seen but 

 rarely, but along the ridges towards the summit of Waialeale they 

 were more and more abundant so far as our explorations extended. 

 Afthis sea.son they are met with, feeding about in loose flocks of a 

 dozen or more, picking at the flowering ohia. Many times they 

 were secured from trees in which /,. ccrruleirostris (Wils.) and 

 H. sanguinea (Gmel.) were feeding. Often they would alight on 

 the low branches to sing or to preen, but they seemed to confine 

 their feeding grounds to the flowers of the ohia which at this 

 season were blooming profusel}'. On the morning of April 18, 

 while coUecTiing in a little valley which sloped off from the main 

 ridge two miles northeast of the mountain house, at an elevation of 

 about 4000 feet, we noted a tall slender ohia that was growing down 

 close beside the little mountain stream, in rather open ground, 

 though well prote(5led from the wind. Attention was attracted to 

 it by the rather unusual flight of what proved to be a fine adult 

 male (Mus. No. 9365) of C. parva. By a careful search it was 

 po.ssible to locate the ne.st of the bird in the topmost branch of the 

 tree some fort}' feet from the ground. Shortly after the male was 

 secured the female (Mus. No. 9366) flew straight to the nest and 

 proceeded to feed the young. Climbing the slender swaj'ing tree 

 was a difficult and somewhat dangerous task, but it was rewarded 

 by the securing of the nest figured on the opposite page, and three 

 young birds in the pin feather. A careful search was made on the 

 ground and all about for fragments of the Q:'g% shells but nothing 

 was found. 



The ne.st, which is believed to be the first one secured, is situ- 

 ated in a vertical crotch and was virtually hidden from view by the 

 leaves which surrounded it. It is composed externall}' of coarse 



