-3- varied and gaudy plumage; while others, with a more sombre garment, possess a melodious voice, not unlike that of our thrush or blackbird; but neither kind is sufficiently num- erous to repay the exertions of the sportsman or ornitholo- gist." Andrew Garrett collected on Raiatea, Huaheine, Bolabola, Motuiti? and Moorea, though he does not seem to have done much on some of them; probably he had the same sentiments as expressed by Bennett in the preceding paragraph. James H. Wodehouse (Brit. Consul at Raiatea) sent 10 species of birds from Huaheine and Raiatea to London, about 1863, but they were collected by Garrett (doubtless the Andrew Garrett mentioned above). M. J. Nicoll visited Tahiti (March 30-April 17, 1903), in the Earl of Crawford's yacht, but "On applying for leave to shoot, I was much disappointed to be told that a law had just been passed to forbid the killing of birds, and that the Governor was "unable" to make an exception in my favor." Nicoll says (of Tahiti) "I saw very few birds of any sort about the seaboard, and it was stated that of late years the rats had killed nearly all of them." Scott B. Wilson visited Tahiti and Bolabola in 1904, a year after Nicoll, and with the aid of the Brit. Consul got a "permis