614 Mr. D. Le Souef on Nests 
other trees when feeding, and their loud curious note can be 
heard for a considerable distance. Mr. C. Barnard found one 
of their bulky open nests on October 30th, 1899, on Sariba 
Island (see fig. 2); it was suspended in a fork of a branch about 
80 feet from the ground. It is a large loosely-built struc- 
Fig. 2. 
Nest and eggs of Vliilemon novce-guinece. 
ture and deep, and is composed of lawyer palm-leaves and 
vine-tendrils, intermixed with a little cobweb; many of the 
tendrils were frayed out, giving the nest a ragged appearance; 
it was lined with fine tendrils and a few broken leaves : its 
external diameter is 6 inches, internal 3^ ; external depth 
