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AVIFAUNA OF LAYSAN, ETC. 



The note is a sharp and short sort of " twit." 



These hirds are very difficult to obtain, as they lire in the thick wood, where progression 

 is very tedious and slow, on account of the dense and high ferns, which-to make thmgs 

 more unpleasant-mostly drip from the continuous rain that so often prevails upon those 



hlUS I named this bird in honour of Professor Alfred Newton, of Cambridge, whose active 

 interest in the birds of the Sandwich Islands has brought forward so much to mcrease 

 our knowledge of the Hawaiian avifauna. 



