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quently made this sound at night. These birds are much hunted 

 by the natives for food, and one would think that they would be 

 very easily seen because of their bright coloring. Such, however, 

 is not the case, for when among the green leaves of the breadfruit 

 trees, which seem to be their favorite haunts, their coloring har- 

 monizes so well with the leaves that they are very difficult to see. 

 Their food consists of wild berries and fruits, all the stomachs con- 

 taining seeds of the Linovia trifoliata. The general color above is 

 a bright green ; crown, forehead, and spot at the base of the lower 

 mandible purple-red, margined behind with yellowish ; primaries 

 and secondaries green with a glossy reflecftion, the inner webs 

 purplish, the secondaries margined with a slight line of yellowish ; 

 wing coverts green, the greater coverts margined with yellowish ; 

 scapulars purplish, margined with 3'ellowish green ; chin and 

 throat a ^^ellowish white ; sides of head and neck grayish green ; 

 breast greenish, with the feathers tipped with pearly gray ; a bright 

 purple patch on the middle of lower breast, surrounded by a zone 

 of greenish and orange ; belly orange, greenish along the sides ; 

 vent and tip of feathers on thigh yellowish ; under tail coverts yel- 

 lowish orange ; upper tail feathers green, with a broad yellowish 

 gray distal band margined narrowlj- with yellow ; under coloring 

 of wings and tail gray, the tail feathers showing white markings 

 on the inner webs near the end ; under wing coverts gray with a 

 slight mingling of green ; bill a pea green ; feet and tarsus a dark 

 gray with a tint of purplish ; iris gold yellow. I find no difference 

 in the coloring of the sexes. Six specimens seledled at random 

 give the following measurements: — 



The spread of the wings from tip to tip is about 15.25, and the 

 depth of the bill at the nostrils is alDout .17. The immature. No. 

 9498, has no red on the head or crown; general upper coloring 

 green with the feathers edged with yellowish ; no dark spot on the 

 breast ; feathers of the belly 3'ellowish ; bill grayish ; feet flesh color 

 with a tint of pink ; eye light hazel. 



Two nests, each containing one egg, were found. These 

 were crude flat stru(5lures, construdled of twigs about the size of 

 a knitting needle, very loosely put together and placed on the top 

 of a .small branch of the Triphasia atirantiola, eight or ten feet 

 from the ground, and how the Qgg is kept from rolling out when 

 the wind blows is more than I can understand. (See Fig. 2.) The 

 eggs are pure white and look like the eggs of the domestic pigeon. 

 Theirsize was 1.31X.85 and 1.12X.80. Hab. Guam, Saipan, Rota. 



