252 Onan.w Bird from the Hawaiian Islands. 
an elevation of about 2000 ft. The stomach and throat were 
full of the ripe berries of Urera glabra, which is common in 
the locality? (Alunro). 
Mr. Munro, who has now for some years been permanently 
resident on Lanai, writes further that though he thoroughly 
explored the forest on that island in the years 1914, 1915, 
1916, and subsequently, he has only twice come across birds 
that he suspects of being the same species as the one described. 
“On March 17th, 1916, further up the same valley, where it 
is very densely wooded, I heard two or three birds calling to 
one another, the ery being less sweet and not so loud as that 
of the Ou (Psittacirostra), and I watched one on the bare 
branch of a tree-top a short distance away. It called regu- 
larly at intervals and kept moving its head, stretching its 
neck and turning on its perch without changing its place on 
the branch. It looked smaller than an Ou and more active, 
but less so than Chlorodrepanis. The form of its bill could 
not be made out, but it was not that of the latter. 
“On Aug. 12th, 1918, in a patch of dry forest on the 
south-west side of the mountain, at about the same elevation 
as that where the original specimen was obtained, I saw 
another bird, and was near enough to note the light colouring 
round the eye, but not the form of beak. Some of its notes 
were like those of Pszttacirostra, but others new to me, espe- 
cially a low squeak or whistle, and it was too small for that 
bird, not so thick-set, and with a very short tail. So I feel 
sure it was the other.” 
As so few specimens have been seen by so skilled a collector, 
the bird must be a great rarity, but its discoverer hopes that 
it may increase in numbers, as the forest is now rigidly pro- 
tected and rapidly recovering. When I collected on Lanai 
in 1893 and subsequently the forest was in a deplorable 
condition, being rapidly destroyed by countless wild goats, 
and it was also full of wild pigs and cats that had run wild. 
The latter, as I have elsewhere recorded, were destroying 
native birds wholesale. Only on the sheer sides of the 
mountain and on a very small part of the narrow backbone 
was the forest ina natural condition. Neither Lord Roth- 
schild’s collectors nor myself ever found a specimen of this 
bird. 
The specimen obtained was in a partially moulting con- 
dition, but the wing-feathers are fully grown. The lack of 
adaptation of mandible and maxilla recalls the condition in 
Lleterorhynchus wilsoni, but it is much more exaggerated, 
Paignton, 
Jan, 7th, 1919. 
