(135) on Kicker Is. and cited as a strange kind of heron was indeed a bitten, similar to the species taken to-day. Well, the rain stayed with us with a brief let-up during the night. If it is the same to-morrow we shall get down to the ship for a dry-out, at least. No fire and cold food is rather bearing. In the ship we have a haven of refuge after the day's drenching, which is not so bad. July 25 - Rain showed no inclination to cease and by 9 A.M. we were on our way down, leaving the camp and the equipment well-covered. We took a Bustard and some long-tailed Swifts. By the time we reached the beach the sky had broken - always the case. There is a shallows near at hand inside the reef which always has a few terns feeding. Shoals of little fish abound furnishing food for small reef sharks and the watchful birds. We shot several. Teora had about 20 birds put up which I labelled as soon as I got on board Hope has it that we shall be able to start again in the morning. July 26 - The captain accompanied us as far as the little islan which I photographed. We had a fair day of it taking the first hornbill and a number of thickheads. It is an odd specimen of this tribe that forbs around below 1000 feet. The camp is at 2100 and thence one can struggle up to 3500 feet. The drainage goes up easily to the camp which is on top of a sharp ridge that steadily narrows into a steep-sided razor-back from there on up. We brought up a quantity of dry wood from the sunny slopes and so had hot kai-kai. We had left the few birds well-covered, but rats managed to chew the feet completely off a flycatcher. To construct a dry & inviolable shelf for the birds is one of the few problems of camping on these windy, rain-swept peaks. We have nothing that one might call "camp equipment." Make the best of a bum & exceedingly damp situation. July 27 - A completely clear day. Thank Heaven. I climbed to the top of the peak, which is devoid of high trees but covered with thick bushes. It resemble the top of Gaturai in which we camped. The terrain below from 2000 feet up is also similar - the ground knee deep in rich moss. Most of the timber about 70 feet in average height with patches of tall trees. The fruit-bearing ones are the smaller. Here feed the yellow-bit dove, the long-tailed, black-winged pigeon, and the common gray-scrubbed species. I saw two white-throated pigeons. On the way down I took three long-tailed pygion and two yellow-dib doves. The for-mer appears to be similar to the type so plentiful on Boyainville. The long-tailed dove is present above 2000 feet, which contrast, with its segregation on the low river bottoms of New Georgia. David and Charle