Show rest chief tells of hawaiian birds r ibes visit to the bird forest coluin one of the attraction attractions terr ory ry of Ilav hawaii fill li in the bird in ho e hawaiian Ila wallan national park it to lie tie pot spot Is I 1 described by to ini bel assistant superintend ten of t of the territory the th IS known locally fil as ICI o 0 m which hichi mean means an oasis ot of cm ins tred troll to the bird forest lead leads the house at the edge e crater of Kilau kilauea ea past sulphur 4 an anil P team cracke cracks and long along the of idunn loa through a low th h of lla hawaiian allan heather and tir j treca until open forest forests and ill b turf meet the eye two ancient h tries stand and at the threshold of forest dext inscribing scribing tn the scene mr air bel el HUTS pays wo 0 o fl ullies of red across the green ches are seen it ll 11 the bird the pt et ai ond bad the crimson apolane cdx froin brou to tree and as ag tile floers ore of the ahin to ob food rom the bright red blossoms n I 1 ey have gained lie the tree top tops are almost instantly lost to view the keenest vision Is heeded to dis aich brilliant bodies from the lly illy brill lint ant olila floers plum ilium aird I 1 rd in red in order to protect it it x u e a paradox of nature when biro ta compelled to eek seek its own oan amons among the red lowers of a areil treil ire alter endless twitter an n adlisa of birds swells I 1 louder notes in Is heard the el t o 0 stent song of the apat ione ve lei AY to a fleet i beet td ta meet ta to ah ab the e oal with alth its remarkable lute quality equality and a whistle of the polo lo 10 repeating repenting at intervals the bables IM of ita its native name and al ys quaintly accenting accent lne the apa pa an er timid ta 1 distinguish able ough h all the other bird bongs songs Is the I 1 of if the amak the fourth of this ittel et of birds most commonly been seen the bokano region a little greenish low r chap quite inconspicuous in forest orcar Getie de rations ago when taxes on athers ra were mere lebed by the he native leeg an accurate knowledge of the ds uns a real essential to life lib ey ind and the pursuit of happiness for s ilan anallan allan lir kraebel says the roost most friendly of e four ur native natlie birds now seen in the a puabla Is the elepano which i wren wi like in the boldness of its iiri in satisfying its curiosity ning forest visitors wren like min in the flirt of its fan shaped tall d the ie tilt of its saucy head bead sir el further describes the bird in spite of these forward qualities aich would seem to expose such a rd to more rapid extinction than its bloms the elepano has not only sted with civilization but a adapted itself to changed condl ons ind and has multiplied as so bright ad self if reliant a bird should do the lapato i Is garbed in a modest brown oat m heeb no one ever cared to use or capes lea and other royal habiliments I 1 the native chiefs and so long as here mere ere bugs to eat the little fly atcher continued to thrive and grow ohl while his neighbors the black amo and the black oo o 00 o each lately blessed with a few tufts of yel ow feathers a there have long ago been anted to extinction to furnish pads gauds or royalty ally some varieties Var letle extinct lir kraebel says the extinction of some birds has baz been due in some cases through the inability to obtain the highly aly specialized food which they required d he believes t that but through centuries PS of evolution certain birds developed ed especially constructed peaks beaks suited only to drain nectar from iola flowers aers or to crack the seeds of f 1111 trev tre v and bad when thes the tree trees were mere uti unatie ate thenia elves to ra r list the march of civilization and tin cally disappeared the bird birds which depended them for subsistence atoned to death UP lie says A few for no apparent baue have hare blizil ly grown leei lesi and ida less in numbers until today hey they ore are no loneer longer found domestic cats cone gone wild mild ajae been for the ei ex lon of other species thu thus in various aas the total number of in bird species in the uneal inn ian islands haa has dropped from W to 30 and of these three dozen species many are so rare that they are eel loin dom seen in spite of thia this fact the common impression Impress lon absorbed by the stronger in hawaii that there are no more Ila hawaiian wallan birds li Is erroneous ex i depung the shore bird birds and the vi ater loving kind most of oar our native bird birds are nr today ns as they have alays been confined to tile densely forested re clone it li Is f fur 0 r th thill 1 a reason a t h lit to few people ore tire able to pee the birda birds at all or to become acquainted with wore than the four whose hardihood enable them to remain so abundant near the tile volcano I 1 it let t the lie bird im loer er be consoled tor for nowhere are the tile native bird birds more numerous nut terou and nowhere in the terri tory hilt III the enthusiast enthus laet find a greater hawaii than here in the kipuka kizuka ildau lul |