(139) frogs both here and on Vauganu. The common brown lizard is the usual species. I have noticed new land snails but have not collected any. The insect bottles are pretty near defunct but I intend to make up some new ones. August 5th Sunday and a clear & calm day - the first in a month. August 6th Four hunters ashore by 7. I climbed to the top of the central ridge - took blackheads, brown & black fantails, & thickheads. Saw three red-billed kingfishers, but only captured one. David took a ground dove yesterday. I heard the red-breast dove & the red-cap way up in the "Tangan" tops. So yet, no one has seen any graybirds. The bush has numbers of wild pigs judging from the amount of tracks and rooting I saw. The island has been uninhabited since 1893, exterminated by the head-hunters of Rendova and Roviana (New Georgia). The most common small bird, apparently, is the black fantail. Thickheads are constantly calling and the flycatchers run in little bunches, both the gray-headed and the bald, the latter in greater numbers. Charlie and Tlesa evidently hugged the shore because they bagged very few small birds. To-day it rained heavy showers both morning and afternoon. Aug 7th The first clear day for this moon when we could hunt. We took some thirty under fifty birds. And a good variety. I managed to get a female graybird and a new bird - the long-tailed "kekow" that Mr. Doek so often ventured after about twilight in various places - the Shortlands especially. This one is the first I have ever heard calling in the daytime except for one occasion on New Georgia I, when we were working at Mayo Entrance. I tried to call the bird without success, but I recall several - numerous times in the evening that I remarked on hearing one - a clear note with a slight crescendo and a short musical yodel very like an abridged edition of the thickhead. I remember it did - twelfth of Shortland I., New Georgia, and Gatakai. David said he thought it was the large graybird. Betty, therefore, a night-roamer it makes, the species about as rare in the daylight as the night-hawk. I imitated the sound easily and the adamy circled through the trees over me and alighted three times before I finally got the shot. It proved to be male-large and the stomach (or crop) was full of fruit - small red things, like tiny carrots that grow on a low tree and green berries about the size of cherries. Both the thickhead and white-eye show plumage differences from the New Georgia types; the latter has yellow legs. This change, the only possible one known and right off the plantation is unique in the access it gives to