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One female, wing, 89.0; tail, 80.7; culmen from base, 23.8; tarsus, 

 29.4 mm. 



In the Marquesas Islands five forms of this interesting bird, each 

 peculiar to the island it inhabits, were taken on Hivaoa, Fatuhiva, 

 Uahuka, Nukuhiva, and Eiao. 



Our first landing was at Hivaoa, and although collecting began 

 early none of this species was seen on the first day. It is uncertain 

 whether the fact that the imported mynah bird occurs only on this 

 island had anything to do with the absence of the warbler. The fol- 

 lowing day we went back in a canyon to one of the upper coconut 

 groves and soon were encouraged by hearing a fine song coming 

 from the top of a coconut tree. After a good deal of effort two 

 specimens were secured. When a bird has completed its song in one 

 treetop it often flies to another, maybe 100 yards distant. Its regu- 

 lar flight between trees very closely suggests that of an oriole, and 

 the size and yellowish color add to this resemblance. 



The song is very attractive and so modulated that one thinks first 

 of a thrush and then of a thrasher, but fails to detect at any time 

 the flutelike cadence of the former bird. On some occasions several 

 birds were heard singing at the same time. While singing, the 

 birds are motionless and are so well hidden by the coconut foliage 

 that it is next to impossible to see them from below. At some of 

 the other islands, especially Fatuhiva and Uahuka, the birds were 

 found in the villages among the coconut groves, and the natives 

 referred to them when seen or heard as " comacco." 



Uahuka was the only place where we saw young birds still more 

 or less dependent on the parents. Here the old birds were seen 

 feeding the young on food gleaned from among the coconuts. 



CONOPODERAS ATYPHA ATYPHA Wetmore 



Fakarava warbler 



Conopoderas atypha atypha Wetmoee, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 63, August, 

 1919, p. 206. (Fakarava Island, Tuamotu Islands.) 



The series of nine obtained in the Tuamotu group includes two 

 males and one female from Fakarava collected October 2, 1929, and 

 three males, one female, and two with sex not indicated shot on Toau 

 Atoll October 4, 1929. In view of the extended series of warblers 

 from the Tuamotus examined by Murphy and Mathews *^ their 

 decision is accepted that the typical form of atypha ranges through 

 most of the northern and western islands of the Tuamotu group. 

 The species is one in which there is considerable range in individual 

 color variation, so that in examining the first specimens obtained, 

 collected by the Albatross Expedition of 1899 and 1900 to the 



*' Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 350, May 7, 1929, pp. &-12. 



