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to be of the same species found on the mainland. I have my doubts. It is 
recorded as comomn, but I ran across only a very few. The reef heron is 
found in limited numbers, but, like in Samoa, I saw it only in the dark phase. 
This is hard to understand, because both the blue and white phases were seen 
commonly in the Ellice and Gilbert Islands. The author of “Birds of 
Hawaii,” Mr. George C. Munro, says he saw both phases at Rose Island, 
near Samoa. This is another interesting question that a bander might 
clear up. 
I saw only three pintail ducks, but it was late in the season; it is a 
winter resident and my observations started in April. The Hawaiian coot 
may be found in any of the many reservoirs and inland lakes. It cannot be 
distinguished from the American coot in the field. Some of the birds can 
be best studied from a boat off-shore; in fact many of them come only to 
remote and inaccessible cliffs that border the north shore of Kauai. Some, 
such as the black-footed albatross, probably never alight on the island. It 
is an easily identified bird, dark brown above and lighter beneath; some 
have white upper and lower tail coverts. It will be seen following a ship 
and occasionally circling it with the speed and grace of—well—an albatross. 
The Bonin petrel is slaty black on the back, forehead and cheeks; under- 
parts are white, and also the under surface of the wings, with a broad black 
border. It, also, has to be seen on the ocean. One must have binoculars to 
study petrels and shearwaters successfully because of their speed, and be- 
cause they hardly ever alight or come to a ship. 
The next bird is also left out of “Birds of Hawaii’: the sooty storm 
petrel, which is sooty brown, about nine to ten inches long, and with a 
deeply forked tail. 
Very many birds have been introduced into the island. Anyone visiting 
here is soon acquainted with the mynah, a native of India. If the mynah 
had the same color scheme as the starling they would be almost identical 
birds, alike in habits, habitats, and songs; as the starling is a great mimic, 
so is the mynah. It is the most numerous of all birds found on Kauai. 
The Chinese dove is well established and can be found anywhere in the 
lower elevations. A large grayish-brown bird with a spotted neck, its tail 
is tipped with white except for the middle feathers. The peaceful dove is a 
common bird, found everywhere. It nests in small bushes and conifers, and 
is a native of Australia. 
A beautiful singer, rivaling many of our North American songsters, is 
the Chinese thrush. When first seen it will remind one of the brown towhee, 
with a white eye-ring, and is found mostly in dense underbrush near streams. 
The white-eye, a native of Japan, is quite common. It is about four and 
a half inches long, has its upper parts green, a white eye-ring, yellow throat, 
and under parts light. 
The English sparrow is found on the island, as usual mostly near human 
habitations, but is not yet too common, however. The California house finch, 
or linnet, is fairly common, especially in the conifers. 
South America has added a bird to the list, the Brazilian cardinal, a 
beautiful bird, but a very uncommon one. 
