Nest and Eggs of Heterorhynchus wilsoni Roths. 



WM. ALANSON BRYAN. 



Owing to the field labors of my friend Mr. C. E. Blacow I am 

 able to give a photographic reprodudlion together with a descrip- 

 tion of the first nest and eggs of the genus Heterorhynchus to be 

 recorded. Although originally erroneously identified by the col- 

 lector, through circumstantial evidence, as Loxioides baillejii, he 

 has since been able to clear up the identity to our satisfaction and 



NEST AND EGG OF HETERORHYNCHUS WII^SONI ROTHS. 



writes me under date of Maj^ 4, 1905, that "I also found a Palila 

 nest, and the female is on the nest. I will wait until the eg^ 

 hatches and then send the nest and young to 5-ou. Those last two 

 nests that I took to the Museum are Heterorhynchus wilsoni nests 

 if the eggs are anything to go by. I found a nest the other day 

 with the H. zvilsoni standing on the edge of it. Today I visited 

 the same nest and found one egg. The egg is the same as those 

 in the other nests. So the Palila that I saw fly out of the tree that 

 I found one of the other nests in was probably feeding and did not 

 have any connecflion with the nest whatever." 



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