AVIFAUNA OF LAY SAN, ETC. 



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Palmer sent clutches of 4 eggs which were found by some of his friends in an open 

 place in a small hollow patch in the grass in the middle of November on Lanai. He says it 

 lays sometimes as many as six eggs, and that the female commences to sit as soon as the 

 first egg is laid, so that young of very different size may be found in one nest. The eggs 

 measure 41 : 315, 41 : 32, 43 5 : 31 5, 40 : 325, 40 5 : 32, 44 5 : 30 6, 413 : 32, and 41 : 30 mm., 

 thus reaching and surpassing the average measurements of European and North American 

 eggs of Asio accipitrinus. 



Young in down were taken on Kauai in January. They are like specimens from Europe 

 in C. L. Erehm's collection, but perhaps a shade paler. 



The natives are afraid of the Owl, as they are of night-birds in many countries. 



