AVIFAUNA OF LAYSAN, ETC. 



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Plumage rich and soft, greenish ; females and young birds duller. 

 Food insects ; habits arboreal. 

 Confined to the Sandwich Islands. 



Nothing is known concerning the n id in cation, but a peculiar odour which these birds 

 emit when freshly killed leads to the surmise that they may breed in hollow trees, which 

 seems the more probable as they usually obtain their food from clefts and corrugations 

 in the bark, and spend more of their time about the trunks and branches than amidst 

 the foliage. 



