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young (Mus. No. 4626). The young bird was sucking the nectar 

 from the Ohia flowers when the parent bird lit beside it. At this 

 the young bird opened its beak to receive the food brought by its 

 parent. The old bird flew away, only to return shortly to repeat 

 the feeding operation. During the time intervening between the 

 attentions of the parent, both old and young birds flew aboiit and 

 fed together. On examining the young bird's crop, several green 

 looper worms were found. 



Of the three well identified nests secured, the best specimen 

 was one taken on June 4 from fifteen feet up in a Kawau {Byronia) 

 tree, growing on the crest of the ridge well toward the top of Puu 

 Ohelo Mountain. Although it was unoccupied it had every appear- 

 ance of having been used in rearing a brood. Scarlet feathers 

 from the breast of the parent bird found in the nest left no doubt 

 of its identity, while from the tree the nest was in I shot a very 

 young liwi, that presumably had but recently left the nest near by. 



The nest (Mus. No. 4699) is mounted on a horizontal fork, 

 and externally is 4.50 inches across by 2.75 inches deep. The 

 bowl is 2.50 inches in diameter by 1.50 deep. Externally the 

 strudfure is composed of the moss so common on the trees in the 

 higher altitudes. Into this has been worked a few sticks and some 

 fibre from the dead leaves of the leie vine. The inner lining is 

 made almost entirely of the black hair-like fibres of dead moss. 

 General!}' speaking it is a ver}- neat and compact structure. 



The second nest (Mus. No. 4701) does not differ much from 

 the one just described. In size it is a trifle larger, and was located 

 in a terminal vertical fork of an Ohia tree. The material, especially 

 the moss, is coarser than in the nest described. 



The third nest (Mus. No. 4700) was not quite completed when 

 colle(5led on Maj' 25 from the thick forests at Halawa. Like the 

 last, it was placed in an Ohia ten feet or more from the ground. 

 Wanting the lining, as it does, it might be mistaken as the com- 

 pleted nest of some other species as the leie fibres used in its con- 

 struction make a very creditable lining. But a close examination 

 of the size, shape and material used, so far as completed, shows it 

 to be substantiall}' the same as the first described. However, the 

 moss is of a different species and a more liberal use is made of 

 small twigs in the foundation, while as just said, leie leaf fibre 

 enters extensively into the secondary lining. Only a few of the 



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