even seen or heard, and for the most part the bush was as silent as a tomb. Hamlin saw what he thinks was a graybird, but he didn't have a shot at it. Mr. Beck in taking the dinghy and collecting along the banks of the salt water inlet near the cocoa- nuts, and climbing along the ridge on the opposite dividing ridge of the island, brought in sixteen birds, but none of them different or new. Four thickheads, which are not common, was the best part of his collection. Hicks, who went out in the afternoon, came back with the same story as Dr. Drowne, Hamlin, and myself. He had shot one bald-headed flycatcher. In trying to get at least some sort of a collection for the day before it was over, we had the long boat take us over to the mangrove, where we felt we had ought to have gone in the first place. We got there only to find the place completely inundated by the rains of the night before and the tides of the lunar flood. So it was what it was- a very rotten day for the profession. From what all of us have heard, seen, or shot, the following is a brief of the birds of the island. White-eyes are scarce, and show a variation from Ganonga, having yellow bills, yellow legs, and re- sembling those found on Vella Lavella. There are a number of striped belly hawks, a number of white- headed kingfishers, a number of bald flycatchers, a number of yellow honeysuckers. Less common but in evidence are the red-throated honeysuckers showing a