(80) climbing up with instruments for meteorological investigations. Balthi has certainly never been climbed. And it is true that birds do not show variation above 3000 feet? I should like to have a look. March 3-5 Pleasently spent writing for the "Marquise". Since she is undoubtedly held up I shall take another jaunt up to see small Bute on the invitation of Mr. Thompson where I can visit a real, live American - Father Wade, a Marist missionary, who at one time was thinking about his chances of getting into big league baseball. Saw two alli- gators to-day when out on a small island off- shore. This harbor has a reputation for them & sharks. I also saw golden plover & what I think were turkeys. March 6 - Left in the "Malaguna" for Bute. We spent the night at Trip island which lies close to the plantation of a gentleman who wrote the Doctor about a peculiar water-bird that lives on a "swim lake at 3500 feet" in back of his place. Probably something common - a gallinule or something. He declares they are "about the size of a pigeon with red bill & feet & swimmers."