Hoeman, Vincent D. 1964 2 to shift among the dark foliage of the roost trees. As we went to breakfast shortly later we noted Barred doves, Geopelia striata, very numerous and tame with a distinctive, off-repeated call. The larger Spotted Dove, Streptopelia chinensis, was also seen, a flock of House Finches, Carpodacus mexicanus, was noted and House Sparrows, Passer domesticus, are in their usual sidewalk abundance. While the mynas are certainly the most obvious birds as they walk on the ground and make a variety of noises from house tops; I later decided house sparrows are more abundant for they are nesting in house eves and on palm leaf- stubs everywhere. I saw a barred dove carry somthing to a leaf stub (nest material ?) Although most of the day had to be spent on the report writing and data compilation, I managed to make a number of short field trips about town becoming familiar with the Japanese white-eye, Zosterops japonica, a distinctive little bird that easily hides among foliage, and found my first bird who got here without man's help, a Golden Plover, Pluvialis dominica, foraging in the narrow grown lawn of the officers club of Fort De. Russy. Somehow less grand than in his breeding plumage on the tundra, but his species' precedent for touring to these isles is older than ours. The only insect I noted today were a few orange with black marking butterflies that appear to be monarchs. Many flowers are abloom. Quite'a few plants seem to be closely related to species I've known in tropical America, probably many are introduced from there.