The NAMRU2 party found the birds to prefer rough, coral jungle where there was considerable heavy undergrowth and ground litter. The birds were located by their loud screeches and cackles but were difficult to stalk. It was best to remain quiet and let them approach within shooting distance. Young chicks were extremely active and wild. One of the two chicks taken at Garakayo was obtained by a fortunate shot as the bird was flying rapidly through the brush. The natives use them as food, and I learned of one serviceman who had worked out a technique for trapping the birds. He traded the live birds to the natives for island souvenirs. As Wilson and Takatsukasa note, the natives apparently prefer the eggs to the adults as food, and in normal times of food abundance they probably do not molest the adults but hunt for their eggs. This seems logical, since if a determined trapping program were in operation by the natives, it should not take many decades to eliminate completely the entire population. On four islands visited by the NAMRU2 party in August and September, 1945, I estimated the following populations: Garakayo--20 to 30; Ngabad--5 to 10; Peleliu--10 to 20; Angaur--less than 10. =Megapodius lapérouse lapérouse= Gaimard Micronesian Megapode _Megapodius La Pérouse_ Gaimard, Bull. Gén. Univ. Annon. Nouv. Sci., 2, 1823, 451. (Type locality, Tinian, Archipel des Mariannes.) _Megapodius La Pérouse_ Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. "Uranie," Zool., 1824, pp. 127, 693, Atlas, pl. 33 (Tinian); _idem_, Ann. Sci. Nat. Paris, 6, 1825, p. 149 (Tinian). _Megapodius La Pérousii_ Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. "Uranie," Zool., 1824, p. 127, pl. 33 (Tinian); Wagler, Isis, 1829, p. 735 (Tinian, Guam, Rota); Gray, Cat. Birds Trop. Is. Pacific Ocean, 1859, p. 46 (Tinian); Oustalet, Ann. Sci. Nat., (6), art. 2, 1881, pp. 63, 138, 140, 143, 171, 175, 176, 177 (Tinian); _idem_, Le Nat., 1889, p. 261 (Mariannes); _idem_, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool., 11, 1891, p. 196 (Tinian, Seypan, Pagon). _Megapodius La Peyrouse_ Lesson, Man. d'Ornith., 2, 1828, p. 221 (Tinian); _idem_, Compl. de Buffon, 2d ed., 2, Ois., 1838, p. 255 and accompanying plate (Tinian). _Megapodius laperousii_ Lesson, Traité d'Ornith., 1831, p. 478 (Mariannes); Gray, Hand-list Birds, 2, 1870, p. 256 (Marian); Ogilvie-Grant, Hand-book Game-birds, 2, 1897, p. 183 (Marianne); Dubois, Syn. Avium, 2, 1904, p. 787 (Mariannes); Lister, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1911, p. 757 (Marianne). _Megapodius Lapeyrousii_ Hartlaub, Journ. f. Ornith., 1854, p. 167 (Mariannen). _Megapodius La Peyrousii_ Reichenbach, Tauben, 1861, p. 5 (Marianen). _Megapodius la-perousi_ Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, p. 43 (Guam, Botta, Tinian).