blue kingfisher to the medium size brown-breasted. In addition, six starlings, a white-headed hawk, a common river heron, a medium sized rainbow parrot, a large red and green parrot, and a bald-headed flycatcher, which may be a new bird, were brought in. Mr. Beck is of the opinion that it is an immature specimen of the regular bald-headed. The morning's work was all we could handle for skinning, so we took the afternoon to skin what we had shot while the France was up cruising around in search of shearwaters. None were collected. In regard to the small inky blue kingfisher the native said that they are plentiful along the river basin and that they make their nests by digging a small hole in the ground. Tuesday, October 18th. After laying to at sea all night we anchored at Viatasoli, Vella Lavella Island, in the morning. It was a beautiful day with very little air stirring. Viatasoli is the location of a Methodist Mission under the direction of Mr. Bensley. There are a number of well-kept up buildings overlooking the flat neck of beach which comprises the harbor. At the end of a long and well-made coral wharf is a canoe house covering some of the most beautiful native canoes that I have yet seen on the islands. There is on the top of the knoll an extremely carefully worked out native church decorated with the totem signs of its members; dove, shark, swallow, snake, etc. Mr. Bensley has evidently done an extremely creditable piece of work here.