Nest and Eggs of Heterorhynchus wilsoni Roths. 



WM. ALANSON BRYAN. 



Owing to the field labors of 1113- friend Mr. C. E. Blacow I am 

 able to give a photographic reprodu(5lion together with a descrip- 

 tion of the first nest and eggs of the genus Heterorhynchus to be 

 recorded. Although originally erroneously identified by the col- 

 ledlor, through circumstantial evidence, as Loxioides bailleui^ he 

 has vsince been able to clear up the identity to our satisfacflion and 



NEST AND EGG OE HETERORHYNCHUS WIESONI ROTHS. 



writes me under date of May 4, 1905, that "I also found a Palila 

 nest, and the female is on the nest. I will wait until the q.%^ 

 hatches and then send the nest and young to you. Those last two 

 nests that I took to the Museum are Heterorhynchus wilsoiii n&?>\.s, 

 if the eggs are anything to go by. I found a nest the other day 

 with the H. wilsoni standing on the edge of it. Today I visited 

 the same nest and found one ^Z'g. The egg is the same as those 

 in the other nests. So the Palila that I saw fly out of the tree that 

 I found one of the other nests in was probably feeding and did not 

 have any connecflion with the nest whatever." 



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