of us ashore for lunch, a mighty repast for which he had had prepared an egg plant soup of most notable flavor. He has a fine big house, roomy and cool. We made ourselves at home in the fly proof room, writing letters, notes, and generally freshening up from our confinement on the fly-beridden France. Mr. Pennock has 33 Malaita boys for his plantation labor, and the copra is planted over the nose and along the ridge of the harbor, the broken lip of an ancient volcano. He also has four Fauro boys on his place as carpenters and boat's crew. The birds at Kalia are mostly located in the bush of the plantation side of the harbor. In the flat land adjoining the cocoanut trees on the ocean side the birds collect in considerable quantities in the morning and evening. On the opposite side of the harbor in the high land they seem to be comparatively scarce at all times. There are a number of herons at the mouth of the river on the western side of the harbor. But outside of these, it is surprising how scarce all other species are along the river course. We found no yellow-bibbed doves. We got, at Kalia for the first time as well as for the first and last on Fauro, the light purple-backed kingfisher. We collected black-headed flycatchers, bald flycatchers, red and yellow-throated honeysuckers, blackheads, midgits, graybirds, and brown fantails. There are definitely no long-tails, white-eyes, black fantails,