(109-1) 153 ing right into deep water and so set all sail and stood out for Hastings Is. Strathord consists of two small, low islands - almost completely planted and not worth the landing. Oct. 8th - 1st 8 A.M. anchored the vessel in rather pre- carious position at NW end of Hastings. Charlie, Davis, and I landed and found a sheer climb up jagged coral and the ensuing terrain an appalling mix-up of broken ridges, holes, and uneven footing. We took only eight species - the most interesting a white-tib dove, so like the Solomon Is. bird except for the tib. They were numerous, calling continuously from the fruit tree tops. The white-eye, flycatcher, and thickhead are in a new variation; the brown fantail is quite the same as the type taken hitherto. The honey sucker is a gray-green bird of rather drab appearance, but calls like other kinds of honeysuckers. The song of the white- eye is familiar, but both flycatcher and thickhead offer a new note: the former chatters like the Solo- mon species, but retains a continual trill in it, low, whistle. The thickhead calls with a chirp and a trill, but with no vigor and variability like the big Solomon chap. The male of the species here is a prettier bird with its white throat; the female ap- ppears quite like the usual type. Charlie caught a