==================+=====+===========+=========+=========+========= | | | | Exposed | SUBSPECIES | No. | Wing | Tail | culmen | Tarsus ------------------+-----+-----------+---------+---------+--------- _H. c. teraokai_ | 17 | 113 | 76 | 45 | 14 | | (110-116) | (72-81) | (41-52) | (13-16) | | | | | _H. c. orii_ | 9 | 111 | 80 | 44 | 16 | | (109-116) | (78-83) | (42-45) | (15-16) | | | | | _H. c. albicilla_ | 17 | 116 | 81 | 46 | 16 | | (109-119) | (78-84) | (42-49) | (14-17) | | | | | _H. c. owstoni_ | 3 | 115 | 81 | 44 | 17 | | (114-116) | (80-82) | (42-45) | (16-17) ------------------+-----+-----------+---------+---------+----------- _Specimens examined._--Total number, 53 (25 males, 28 females), as follows: Palau Islands, USNM--Garakayo, 3 (Sept. 20)--Peleliu, 14 (Aug. 27, 29, 30, 31, Sept. 1, 5, 6, Nov. 7); AMNH--exact locality not given, 36 (Oct., Nov., Dec.). _Food habits._--Unlike _H. cinnamomina_, _H. chloris_ obtains much of its food by fishing in inland waters or in tidal flats and lagoons. It does, however, obtain terrestrial foods also. Stomachs of birds taken by the NAMRU2 party at Palau contained insects, fish, crab, and shrimp. One stomach contained 3 cc. of fragments of crab, another 2 cc. of shrimp and other crustacea, and another 2 cc. of grasshoppers. Marshall (1949:210) records the house mouse as a food of this bird. _Parasites._--Uchida (1918:483) records the bird louse (Mallophaga), _Docophorus alatoclypeatus_, from this bird at Palau. Bequaert (1939:82 and 1941:290) lists the fly (Hippoboscidae), _Ornithoica pusilla_, from _H. c. teraokai_.