The coconut plantation which comes under his operation in connection with the Mission is one of the best class, and the natives seemed bright and content. It is here that one of the few electric lighting plants of the Solomon Islands is located. Mr. Bensley lent Hamlin, Dr. Drowne, and myself an intelligent native guide, and under his leadership we struck out for a day's collecting. He took us along the trail which leads to the so-called Bottomless Lake. This is a brackish stretch of water about a quarter of a mile in width filling a subsidence three hour's march from Viatsoli. We arrived about two o'clock having started at nine making some halts for shooting. Returned to the ship at five. The lake is an illusion as far as bird collecting is concerned on account of its salinity, but if a collector were to take with him a collapsible boat of some sort he would undoubtedly find his reward in fishes. We collected along the trail to the lake which leads through some thick bush of a low altitude and finally skirts the shore of the ocean in a general westward di- direction from Viatasoli. Day's collecting showed a variation in the white-eyes, the bill and legs in this case both being yellow, and a variation in size from Kulambangra in the red spotted honeysuckers. We took thickheads (black with yellow under the breast and on the head), minors, white-eyes, fantails,