(122) June 12 - Four of us ashore by 7 A.M. I got three red-billed kingfishers. I have learned how to stalk them. Their shrill knife-like call has a slight deflection in tone toward the finish so that it gives the impression of travelling. I once thought they only called when on the wing. I tried going toward the sound of the call, which in this case was repeated; there the rascal was close-up cocking his eye at me and screwing his neck up and down in most quizzical fashion. In some cases they are relatively tame. I have approached very close - within 10 feet, following the direction of a call and have not seen the kingfisher until he shifted a few feet to another tree, apparently eying me all the time. The running mountain stream is the place to look for them - in the steep ravines that lead into it. They nest in the walls of these; mostly volcanic soil mixed with red clay. I presume all the river kingfishers are ground-dwellers. The land 'ee-ee' in trees or tall, dead stumps; and the shore 'kw-kw' in trees. Of the two types of the 'ee-ee', the small one lives around rivers and is settled further inland; the big one seems to prefer proximity to salt water. The latter is usually the one taken on small outlying islands. June 13 - All ashore by 7 A.M. I took another kingfisher and several pigmy parrots. The latter have been coming in regularly now of late. They are the typical species - iris orange & feet a dark blue. I have seen them here in bunches of six or ten clinging to the fork of large trees - feeding. I shot another red-billed kingfisher - simply by stalking its call. Unlike most rare birds they are quite tame and can be approached, if one does not move too conspicuously. The little fellow will cock his eye and perhaps shift to a different perch to get a good look. New Georgia along the rivers of the Marovo has yielded a fine series of little kingfishers. It is good collecting country but for the rough going inland with no trails and puzzling topography. David is doing every bit as well as Hicks now; Charlie and Tessa are slow and not particularly keen hunters, but they can be depended upon for the numbers in common species. June 17 - Awoke up at 7 A.M. and proceeded down the coast via Linyutu Entrance to Mayo where we entered and anchored off the mainland by 9. Here we find another good-sized river: the Hire. David, Charlie, and Tessa investigated this while I started out at noon in the small boat landing a short way up the stream. Took several fly-catchers - both gray-headed and bald and some white-eyes. The highest part of New Georgia mainland is inland from our present location; yet the thickheads are found at every elevation. The hood-bill bluebird and the large graybird favor these river bottoms, widely good feeding area.