in that part of the bush through which the trail passes before it reaches the river. It was in here that the only exciting ornithological event of our stay took place. Dr. Drowne shot one beautiful specimen of the very rare white-throated ground pigeon. This fortunate occurrence came on the second day. He was looking for a small bird that he had heard calling in one of the small trees when this pigeon flew into a tree, being silhouetted against the sun. At the time he had no idea that it was the bird that it was. He shot at it with the aux., making a freak shot at a distance technically out of range for this chamber, but consequently obtaining an almost perfect plumage in the specimen. The throat of this pigeon is extremely white, the appearance of the breast being roughly as though a snow shoe covered with snow had been placed on it facing downwards. Bronish purple feathers extend in a collar around the neck, fading gradually into the mud brown feathers of the body at about the centre of the folded wing. The feet were banana red brown, bill black, iris dark brown, a needle of white feathers pierce the eyes parallel to the bill, and the specimen was an adult male. As usual all the possible birds were at water level at Mundi Mundi, as they have been at all the other spots on this island. Another try for specimens of the white-throated ground pigeon were unsuccessful, ownr third day here being one of an exceedingly severe