^6 Director's Annua/ Rcpoii. 



lyOphortyx californica (vShaw). 



The California Ouail is common, though not abundant, on 

 Molokai, frequenting the open country on the western end of the 

 island. The mother birds were being followed by their half-grown 

 young in May. 



Phasianus torquatus Gmel. 



The Ring-necked Pheasant is a well established introduced 

 species on Molokai. 



Phasianus versicolor Vieill. 



Like the last, the Japanese Pheasant is common on the island. 

 l'>oth species keep to the open country or the edge of the forests, 

 seldom, if ever, entering the deeper woods. 



Spilopelia chinensis Scop. 



The Chinese Turtle Dove is occasionally seen in the deepest 

 nitive forests, though it is more commonly found nesting in the 

 i itroduced Algaroba {Prosopis) along the coast about Kaunakakai. 

 There is but little rice or grain of any kind raised in Molokai, 

 hence the dove does not find as congenial a habitat there as on 

 Oahu for examjile. 



Asio accipitrinus sandwichensis (Blox.). 



In the Dire(5lor's Report for 1904 (Oc. P. B. P. B. Mus., vol. ii, 

 ]). 241 ) I published a note on the nesting habits of the Pueo. To 

 the data there given I am now able to add a third date for the 

 nesting period of the Hawaiian Owl. While moving my camp 

 into the Halawa headwater region, well back of Hipuapua falls, on 

 May 24. I found a nest of the Pueo, in a swaile which had formerly 

 been a large wild banana patch, three or four acres in extent. 

 My guide was in ad\ance and stepped direttly over the mother- 

 bird without noticing her. Fortunately, the bird did not take 

 flight, and I was able to catch her in my hand as she crouched on 

 the nest. The nest contained one recently hatched young, and five 

 lustreless white eggs, all of which were well advanced in incu1)ation. 



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