(78) government" - and so we stuck. Saw a pigmy parrot - they must be plentiful somewhere in Bougainville. I have had several excellent angles on Balbi, the mountain I would like to climb; it does not look any 10,000 feet to the crater. But the bush is cer- tainly impenetrable from this side - about 20 miles of saw-tooth peaks right up to the summit. The thing has been attempted twice. Went out collect- ing and got a cuckoo and two more kingfishers, with us. Aweic my eye is not "on the tell". The lo- cel me showed me their garden of great ex- tent. The soil up in this region (2000 feet) grows beautiful taro. We sat down to a feed of water-melons (introduced by the government) and re- turned to the village. Slept on a half dozen lengths of bamboo - very comfortable compared to the three slabs of tree trunk at Eropawia. Since the language differs here with every district, it seems foolish to give native names for birds. These are all vastly different in around Kopei & Raino. Kingfishers - titura White-footed Kingfisher - ole-kuakura Cuckoo - piwi Shrike - caseda Yellow-headed Parrot - Kubato Red-bellied Flycatcher - Kowekera (Mawa-tetu) Black Fantail - tatapedia Hawk - takawa Bush Rat - gutuguturi Red-knobbed Pigeon - urugo