branch a mile and a half upstream. We ascended this to a distance of approximately four miles, crossing seven rapids and made camp on a delta of the south bank. The stream flows from north to south at this point, and four of the rapids were too fast for us to navigate without considerable pushing and hauling from ahead and over-board the dinghy. Coming down after heavy rains had swollen the river was precarious going, although we managed to keep upright and transversed the distance very rapidly. At the mouth of the river we noticed a quantity of large birds at the tops of the high trees. There were hawks, long-tailed doves, rusty winged blackbirds, pigeons, and parrots. We couldn't get near enough for a shot or near enough to properly identify them. Further up we shot a river heron and a common brown heron. Around our camp there were small trees in which white-eyes, ground dove, yellow and red-throated honey- suckers, thickheads, rusty winged blackbirds, and bald flycatchers came and went at different intervals during our three day stay. We collected specimens of all of them. Across the river in the rocky red clay banks a pair of small kingfishers (brown breasted) appeared often enough to suggest a nest somewhere in the vicinity. We collected one male adult and one small male of this species. A pair of sandpipers flew upstream every morning at sunrise, spent the day feeding up the river just north of the camp, and flew down again at sunset. On the second day of camp Hicks and I took up all