(72) What more could be said for any bird than what I have in mind for the long-tailed swift-"silent,solitary,and beautiful in flight" ? You find many around stream bottoms,perched motionless on bare limbs. They like insects,which are caught,no doubt,with much success in their weaving flight.What can I say about the rusty-winged blackbird and the mina? So much has been said already,I can simply add- they are easy to skin. Regarding the"pitta"or groung-thrush("kokorbi"),which has al-ready been mentioned,I cannot put down much,only having seen one(on a later camping trip at Tiop- May 2-4)and then just a glimpse.It is the most interesting of the Bougainville avifauna since it is probably pe-culiar to the island.Very light,almost a faded blue,yellowish breast like the land kingfisher,and silvery feathers in the lower breast re-gion under the wing and in the upper wing coverts.The wings are rudi-mentary for it nests and feeds on the ground(according to the native sav-ants and undoubtedly true).Like the mountain species of thrush this one feeds on seeds and small insects.The head and bill suggest a rela-tionship.It is extremely wary and obtained simply by good luck.The one I saw flashed before my feet on the trail and was gone in the grass and scrub before I could raise my gun.Tutepe must have seen his quarry while he was sitting quiet resting or smoking;else,he did some ingeni-ous stalking because he got it with the aux.They do not range much above 2000 feet.Tutepe shot his at about 1800;I saw mine at 2300.The natives of Kupei did not know the bird with any familiarity.Its call I have not heard but is described by"the natives as a fairly long whistle,commencing on one note,then raising a note with a slight stop in between,and continuing steady on an ascending scale for about three more notes where it ends fortissimo- hence the name,which is onomato-poeic-"ko-k-o-r-bi".He"sing out all the same". We have been fortunate in securing three specimens of a small screech owl.Two were shot in the daytime and the other caught by a native at night.it is small and in very rich plumage,resembling a specimen from Vanikoro,which was presented by Captain"Bertie"Hall of the Malaita Company's fine schooner"Royal Endeavor".We have-heard a night hawk on a few occasions;unfortunately none are in the collec-tion.The brown inland water heron has also been identified but not ta-ken.I saw the same fellow twice on a stream branch below Kupei.They sit in the ferns and grass beside the water where they hide their nest somewhere.They are quick to sense an intrusion.Once it flew up close to my feet;I found a place hollowed out in the grass where he had been hidind.Then,very often,they roost in the lower branches of trees close to the water.The fine male we got up at the grebe pond back of Tiop in May came and alighted on a dead limb and so helped to complete the collection. The varieties of parrots and parrakeets are distributed from the shore to the mountain top in all sizes and colors.The only species I have seen at 5000 feet are the green parrakeet and the omni-present cockatoo.The large green and re parrots,male and female,and the noisy red coconut parrot range up to about 4000.The few examples that we collected were taken along the shore for reasons of convenience.The blue-headed parrakeet is also present up to 4000 feet. The two larger birds are regarded as pests by plantation managers who are generally glad to see us hunting them;it seems they often kaikai the young nuts, drilling right through the tough fibre and shell.At 3000 feet you begin