(138) The skipper and I breakfasted up at the house and rain began again before I had finished my cigarette. I got out about 2 A. M. and followed a stream. Intermittent rain all day. Tetupari I., is 14 miles long and a little over 3 miles in breadth - rough and ridgy with no prominent peaks - maximum altitude 1300 feet. The channel between this land and Rendova is about 1/2 mile across. I took very few birds - flycatcher, a stockhead and several kingfishers - white-bred & the small land "ee-ee". The former is quite plentiful, Charlie bringing thru. They live around the mouths of the several streams that flow through the coconuts, and amongst the mangroves at the S. end of the plantation. The island seems to be a haven of kingfishers - the big white-headed fellow is here in numbers, and appears to show an insular variation in a small blue-green spot back of the eye; I am not sure. It is so long since we have found them common. Purple gallinules are extremely common, running leaf-tame about the plantation. August 4 - Shore early with T-eora for half a day. I had a boy with me to point out a scant trail they use for pig-hunting. It is the first fair morning we have had for a week. I shot about 20 birds before lunch. The hornbill, crested pigeon, and the other altitude fruit-eaters, are not present. The long-tail dove is lacking. Both the blackhead and thickhead show new plumage variation; the latter seems to be unusually large. Pants & the blue-headed parakeet are quite common. And the red-knobbed pigeon. I heard myzopodes & the red-billed kingfisher. David brought in one of the latter. Charlie found a little lagoon in the mangroves and picked up 8 ducks (Pacificus), the usual test. All on board by 3 o'clock and finished the birds by dinner time, at which our friends on shore joined. They have "placed the place at our disposal." The manager supplied a case of kerosene, which we are out of and a large pail of fat (dripping) from fresh beef killings (which we also lack). Shore laid around - the blue-green reef heron, golden plover, little sand-piper, and some stray Curlew. The terrain in the bush is very rough - the upper strata mostly soft red clay + loam and crumbly rocks. The timber is very large, the great trees with the twisted hawse-like roots prevailing; these were not common either on Gatukai or Vanamina. We have taken ducks & ```json ```