exploited. He is at once the only discord, as he is the Lord Fool at which all his environment is convulsed with laughter. It was a coincidence that Hannibal got bushed the same evening. The boys went out for him with lanterns, guns, natives, and loud shouts, finally locating him under a rock further up the same stream where he had lost himself. The birds collected on this island so far are as follows: thickheads, white-eyes, three kinds of king- fishers, grey birds, long-tail doves, common ground doves, yellow bibbed doves, red-knobbed pigeon, the two kinds of flycatchers, the long-tail, the fantail, and the pigmy parrot, the megapode, the common red parrot, the large red, blue, and green parrot. Rumors of a black cockatoo appear to be unfounded. No cockatoos of any sort were seen. Saturday, October 22nd. Had a very excellent day's collection. I went with the native whose friendship I made the first day of our stay- Marco. He led me along a trail which ascends the ridge slightly to the east of the anchorage. It turned out to the astonishment of myself, to be a trail leading directly to the summit of the mountain which stood in the opposite direction. The best amount of information that I could get from Marco had the name of the mountain as Koomba. It remains a mystery which mountain it was as viewed from the ship. It is easy enough to distinguish the very peak one hopes to attain during the day- it is easy to distinguish it