Beck had shot a barn owl, first one in the Solomons. 117 Black fantails, brown fantails, thickheads, graybirds, and blackheads, to say nothing of swifts, parrots, etc., had been found in more than satisfactory numbers. On Sunday an expedition of pillage and photography including Dr. Drowne, Hamlin, the captain, and myself, set out for the skull tombs north of the plantation. After taking some photographs of the skulls we tried to study their exact arrangement. It apparently is correct to say that the skulls were all originally tied together with vines in bunches of twos and threes, and grouped behind each other in rows completely fill- ing up the clefts of the tomb. The clefts are from three to four feet deep, eighteen inches high, and are hewn from four to four and a half feet from the shelf on which one must stand to come close to them. There were evidently from three to three hundred and fifty skulls entombed in the fourteen or so clefts which are cut in the side of the stone facings. Very few were elaborately decorated, one having a stone face hewn above its centre and another having a raised stone flourish, similar to a flowing bracket cut around it. One or two of the skulls had high Caucasian foreheads and Dr. Drowne concurred with me that one of these was unmistakably that of a white man. Some of the skulls in the third and most inaccessible group of tombs visited were in a very good state of repair, and many had rings pasted into the eye sockets with a sort of hard vegetable glue. We stole twelve