fantails, red-throated honeysuckers, thickheads, a new curve-billed bird resembling a honeysucking form of thickhead, and a brown-bellied flycatcher. At the end of our stay in the camp I will make a synopsis of all the birds on the island which, as the result of more experience and more study, will be less fragmentary than each day's ruminations. New Year's Day, 1928. Hamlin and Dr. Drowne stayed in camp to write up their notes while I set out on the trail up the mountain. Hamlin and I have arranged a schedule to mount the trail on alternate days. Ona, the Kukurai's pickanniny, and Cumbai, a bush- man of Kupei, went with me. When we got as high as four thousand feet the fog and cold sleet set in upon us and never let up until late in the afternoon. There is a spot on the trail at forty three hundred feet where a landslide has cleared away the bush leaving, on clear days, a superb view over the adjoining mountains, over Arawa valley and out to sea. Slightly up and to the left the clouds and omnipresnet fogs and mists pour through a gulch in the range and water the green valley beneath our camp. Far out to sea the great barrier reef, its white spume assuming the proportions of a diamond brooche, can be seen cutting the blue monotony of the horizon; and nearer, here and there, trails of blue smoke rising from the scattered native villages. It was my intention to discover the highest alti- tude on the trail. In this attempt the three of us covered a considerable distance back and forth along