56 Director's Annual Report. 
Lophortyx californica (Shaw). 
The California Quail is common, though not abundant, on 
Molokai, frequenting the open country on the western end of the 
island. ‘The mother birds were being followed by their half-grown 
young in May. 
Phasianus torquatus Gmel. 
The Ring-necked Pheasant is a well established introduced 
species on Molokai. 
Phasianus versicolor Vieill. 
Like the last, the Japanese Pheasant is common on the island. 
Both species keep to the open country or the edge of the forests, 
seldom, if ever, entering the deeper woods. 
Spilopelia chinensis Scop. 
The Chinese Turtle Dove is occasionally seen in the deepest 
native forests, though it is more commonly found nesting in the 
iitroduced Algaroba (Prosopis) along the coast about Kaunakakai. 
There is but little rice or grain of any kind raised in Molokai, 
hence the dove does not find as congenial a habitat there as on 
Oahu for example. 
Asio accipitrinus sandwichensis (Blox.). 
In the Director’s Report for 1904 (Oc. P. B. P. B: Mus., vol. 11, 
p. 241) I published a note on the nesting habits of the Pueo. To 
the data there given I am now able to add a third date for the 
nesting period of the Hawaiian Owl. While moving my camp 
into the Halawa headwater region, well back of Hipuapua falls, on 
May 24, I found a nest of the Pueo, in a swaile which had formerly 
been a large wild banana patch, three or four acres in extent. 
My guide was in advance and stepped directly over the mother- 
bird without noticing her. Fortunately, the bird did not take 
flight, and I was able to catch her in my hand as she crouched on 
the nest. ‘he nest contained one recently hatched young, and five 
lustreless white eggs, all of which were well advanced in incubation. 
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