EXTRACTIONS FROM THE UNPUBLISHED SPECIES ACCOUNTS OF A. WETMORE 
Wake Island , July 27 - August 1923- 
MEGALOPTERUS HAWAIIENSIS 
About 200 nest in the Tournefortia trees near the beach, scattered among the 
noddies. Nests now contain young. Adults fly about my head with their harsh 
rattling calls. Not found far inland. Feet and tarsi vary from blackish 
brown to dark orange. 
GYGIS ALBA 
Abundant. Fully 2500 on the three islands. The birds are found in little 
groups of two or three pairs among the Tournefortia trees where they lay their 
eggs in little depressions or scars on limbs one and one half to two and one 
half inches in diameter, from two to fifteen feet from the ground. Some eggs are 
fresh, other parents have nearly grown young. Though the love-birds come and 
hover overhead as elsewhere they are wild and seldom approach within 20 feet. 
In addition to their froglike grunt they sometimes utter a high pitched squeaky 
whistle teu-ee-ee-ee. The skin in this species is black and the feathers 
loosely attached. 
HETERACTITIS 
July 31, 1923. Two seen. 
August 1, 1923• One 
