shrikes, honey suckers (both kinds), long-tails, cocka-83 toos, large red parrots, small red parrots, and starlings. Mr. Beck collected eight specimens of bats from a cave near the Mission building. Dr. Drowne and Hicks collected two specimens of snakes about two feet long each, one dull black and the other spotted black and white. Saw two possums (candora) today for the first time in the Solo- mons. The country around here is not high, seldom rising above sixty or seventy feet. Wednesday, October 19th. Hove up anchor in the morning and arrived at Kumbakota, Island of Ganonga. The mouth of the anchorage faces eastward towards Gizo and is located between a small coral island on one hand and the scimitar of beach on the other. The land rises rather abruptly from the shore to an elevation of 2000 feet or so. The Seven Day Mission have settlement here under a native teacher, and the huts of the natives skirt the shore under the cocoanut trees. They are unusually friendly and in the evenings of our stay developed the habit of coming out to the ship in large throngs to watch the process of bird skinning through the opening of the forward hatch. Four mountain streams of generous size pour into the ocean at this point of the island all within the radius of the one native settlement; they proved a god- send to the crew of the France as they must prove a god- send to the natives all the year around. The water is cool, and has the blessed habit of collecting in deep pools near large flat rocks, making ideal places for