Bougainville with all the villages except the adjoining ones essentially unfriendly to one another, the natives travelling on the trails for any distance carry their weapons with them. A proper armament is composed of a bow with eight or ten arrows wrapped up in sac sac leaves. This armament, in the event of a journey all the way to Kieta, is more often than not bartered away to the Chinaman for beads, a tin of meat, or a knife. January 5th. Started off this morning with Cumbai and Lutnineva. We attained the region of the yellow- bibbed doves about eight o'clock and found very good shoot- ing. In two hours and a half we shot six good specimens. These birds see to eat at least four different kinds of berries, a green, a red, a white, and brown, and a russet colored. The best time to get a shot at them, that is, the only time it is possible to get a shot at them, is when they disturb a branch in yanking off their food. Several times we exhausted fifteen or twenty minutes under a tree, knowing there was a dove in it somewhere, but always unable to see it. And generally when we did see it, it was when it flew away. The weather has not treated our undertakings kindly, but the rain in its pure obliterating form has kept away each day until the noon hour. The moon is at present on the rise and I suppose we can expect much worse luck in the latter part of the month. The rain today was just fifteen minutes too late to prevent the shooting of two small cuckoos, the first blood in this species.