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ee HENSHAW, American Birds in Hawait. 203 
RED-BREASTED MERGANSER (MMergus serrator). 
I am not aware that this Duck has hitherto been recorded from 
the Islands where it is a casual and possibly a rather regular 
winter visitor. Nov. 8, 1899, one of these Mergansers was shot 
by Mr. Otto Rose of Hilo near the town, being one of two seen. 
Nov. 28, I shot the surviving bird a mile or two further down the 
coast in a small salt water pond. It was fat and in fine order, 
and had in its throat two of the common fresh and brackish 
water fish known to the natives as Oopu. 
The natives, to whom I showed this Duck, seemed in nowise 
surprised, claiming to have seen the species before though rarely. 
They gave it the name Moha, but as this name is applied also, 
according to Mr. Dole, to the Shoveller its correct application is 
open to doubt. Present day natives know extremely little of 
Hawaiian birds and usually are either unable to name a bird at 
all or are in doubt. 
In time, no doubt, as stated of the Gulls, particularly all the 
species of our northwest Ducks will be noted from the Islands, 
nothing being more likely than that a few stragglers will accom- 
pany the flocks of Shovellers and Pin-tails which are regular 
winter visitors. 
RED PHALAROPE (Crymophilus fulicarius). 
Brother Matthias of the Catholic Brotherhood has a mounted 
specimen of this bird in winter dress which he shot, together 
with several others, on the island of Mani in December, 1894. 
So far as I am aware this is the first record of the bird’s occur- 
rence upon the Islands. Brother Matthias informs me that the 
Phalaropes frequent some small inland ponds at Kahalui and are 
of not uncommon though irregular occurrence, two er three years 
often elapsing between their visits. 
At the same time and place Brother Matthias shot two Ameri- 
can Curlews (not the Bristle-thighed) which I judge from his 
description to be probably Mmenius hudsonicus. These speci- 
