seventy miles to windward of such a collection of creatures as these. The bush birds in this region are very scarce. On Tauno the common birds, hornbills, cockatoos, minors, large parrots, pigeons, etc., are present in abundance. But the only things of note that the island produced was a rare night hawk, a white-breasted hawk (similar to the one Hamlin shot on Florida) and a few blackheads. There were plenty of green herons on Tauno, and I saw a pair of white herons, although no one, including myself, shot any of this species. The bush on the mainland was as barren of valuable birds as the bush near Choiseul Bay. A brace of graybirds, some blackheads, and a dozen or so bald flycatchers was the best that it could show. There is a trail to the top of the hill nearest the anchorage but only one dove, and that a common red- breasted one, was found either at the top or at the bottom. There are evidently no white-eyes, no long-tails, and no thickheads on Tauro. But what the island possesses we hope to make certain when we find a spot richer in birds than the Kariki district. With this in mind we weighed anchor at ten o'clock Friday morning at the turn of the tide, and set out for Sinasora on the other side of the Eastern Cape. It is appropriate to mention that the crew of the France have gotten into a fit of making ship models. We