of experience with the country, where to look for the 178 things we want. Hamlin came down from the mountain (it is a part of the Kronprinzen Gebirge) about half past four with his two boys and a good day's work in birds. He brought in another redbreast, another thrush, eight yellow-bibbed doves, and some thickheads, besides one or two small birds he shot at a low altitude coming and goning. January 3rd. Started up the trail this morning with Cumbai (attired in a Halifax, N. S. blue knit sweater to protect him from the cold-- Oh, little does that storekeeper in Halifax know what uses his merchandise is put to!), and Lutnineva, a very intelligent boy who followed us up as a carrier from Kino. We ran into the yellow-bibbed doves above four thousand feet and shot four of them. They are very hard to see, being the color of the leaves of the fruit trees they inhabit and re- maining, generally, very silent. In the five thousand feet district, close to the summit, there exists an area of altitude birds such as a different dun-colored fantail, a dingy thickhead, the thrush, the warbler, the long-tail pigeon, the green paraqueet, and the two forms of white-eye. We bagged four thickheads, four of the brown fantails, one of the thrushes, and one of the redbreasts. The rain set in very heavily at noon, and we had lunch (sardines and biscuits) close to a bog where a slow flowing icy brook provided water. After lunch we sloughed around in the fog and rain. We picked