Some Birds of Molokaz. 47 
civ Ore BIRDS. 
Micranous hawaiiensis (Roths.). 
A few examples were seen at sea off the Wailau side of the 
island. ‘There is a cave on the coast between Pelekunu and Wai- 
kolu, through which it is possible to row a canoe at low tide, that 
is used by this species as a nesting and roosting place. Although 
I did not visit the cave, I am reliably informed that the thousands 
of little Hawaiian Tern or Noio make this their home. 
ZEstrelata sandwichensis Ridgw. 
Cstrelata sandwichensis Ridgway, Water B. N. Am., ii, p. 395 (1884). 
Although the Uau is to be seen at the proper seasons on the 
channels between the various islands of the group, and has for 
generations been hunted by the Hawaiians for food, not to men- 
tion its having long ago been made to figure in a very popular 
legend of the natives, it has continued to remain one of the rarest 
of the Hawaiian birds in museum collections. 
Up to the present, save for an immature specimen in the Bishop 
Museum that was collected by Mr. Henshaw on the beach at Hilo, 
in 1900, the species has been known only from a skin ‘‘from the 
Sandwich Islands’’ in the U. S. National Museum (No. 61,259), 
collected by Mr. V. Knudsen, and a second specimen taken by 
him on Kauai, now in the British Museum. It is, therefore, with 
considerable satisfaction that I report on a fine series of adult 
skins which I secured on Molokai during the month of June. 
On April 26, while at the residence of Mr. John Walker, in 
Pelekunu valley, I was shown, ina cabinet of curiosities, a roughly 
mounted specimen of the Uau. ‘The bird had been collected by 
Mrs. Walker three or four years before the time of my visit, one 
morning, asleep in the long grass on the hills back of the village, 
and not far from Mrs. Walker’s house. ‘The specimen was kindly 
given to me for examination. The following morning, at an early 
hour, I heard a solitary bird calling from high up on the cliffs near 
the village where I had spent the night. JI at once made an effort 
among the natives to organize an Uau hunt. ‘They all agreed 
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