86 Director's Annual Report. 
calls. One which is very puzzling, especially to the natives, is a 
cat-like cry which is given in an inquiring intonation from some 
hiding place in the undergrowth. 
The species was more abundant at Halawa than at any of the 
other localities visited. This was doubtless due to the seclusion 
afforded by the untrodden forests of that section. A few immature 
birds were taken, but the majority of those seen were in the fully 
adult plumage. The length of time required for the young to 
acquire the adult plumage is apparently more than one year. 
On May 1 I took from thirty feet up in an Ohia tree growing 
in the dense woods on the summit of Puualu, a nest which I have 
no hesitancy in referring to this species. In the locality was a 
pair of resident Olomao, evidently the owners of the nest (Mus. 
No. 4710) here described. Externally it is over 6.00 inches in 
diameter by 3.50 inches deep. Small dead Ohia twigs form the 
foundation of the structure. Into this is placed a generous lining 
of moss and fine rootlets neatly woven together to form a substan- 
tial thrush-like nest. The hollow of the nest is 3.50 inches across 
by 1.50 inches in depth. The nest has evidently been used and 
deserted, though unmistakably of recent construction. It is singu- 
lar that as yet nothing is known of the egg of any of the species of 
the genus, save the reference by Henshaw (Birds of the Hawaiian 
Islands, p. 31) to the finding of a small fragment of an egg shell in 
the stomach of a Hawaiian Hawk (4ufeo solitarius) which he sug- 
gests might be a portion of an egg of Pheornis obscura of Hawaii. 
It seems worth while recording that an old native who accom- 
panied me on my Moanui trip said that he had heard from his 
father ‘‘that a long time ago there was on Molokai a small brown 
bird that ran on the ground but could not fly,’’ but that they had 
all been dead for a long time. He gave its name as Moho (/en- 
nula). He also said that his father had told him of the Elepaio 
(Chasiempts) being on Molokai in the olden time. Mr. Theodore 
Meyer substantiated this report by saing that when he was a boy 
it was generally known to the old natives that both the Moho and 
Elepaio had been plentiful, but that they had long ago died out. 
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