154 Nikoba pigeon and David a lesser eagle hawk. The sto- mach was empty; it looks quite like the Solomon Is. type; we took one on Pororan Is., off “Little Buka.” In all we found the morning's work not as fruitful as it could have been, had the topography of the place allowed us to cover more terrain. Boarded at 1 P.M., when the captain hove up and set a course under all sail for East Is., the easternmost and largest of the three. Tacked twice during night Oct. 9th Beating toward destination, clear of intervening reef and anchored finally at 5 P.M. off N.W. corner of island in very rough water but sheltered from SE wind. Oct. 10th Four of us landed at 7. I returned at noon having used up all my aux shells. Found that Charlie had returned during the morning with fever—his temp. 104. The avifauna here is just similar to that taken on Hastings. I was fortunate in getting a new ground dove, a rather fine bird. The dove is the same white- bib. No one reports any pigeons; I have not heard any calls. A hawk also came my way—a small striped species. Its stomach showed lizards. Both the striped and the short, brown lizard are common on the Bourvoloir—similar to the Solomons. I shot 3