155 megapodes. They are in rich plumage - the usual brown but the legs are yellow with black markings on the toes, which have particularly long claws. Again, the call is different - a loud, fast trill, quite unlike the weird yodel of the Solomon malar. I observed no nests or egg posses. This bird is not like the New Guinea bush turkey, which builds the great cumber- some mound communally; this would compare with the genus megapodus described by Wallace in the "Malay Archipelago." This island was reported inhabited by the H.M.S. Basilisk in 1874. Wild pigs abound; David shot at four to-day. We also came upon a hole inconveniently filled with broken skulls and bones. The former inhabitant, have undoubtedly moved to another place, if they did not die out, which seems unlikely. No signs of actual habitation in the interior - only coco- nuts near the anchorage, and pig trails. Oct. 17th Manuel very ill with fever; and both Teora and David have asked for quinine. Charlie still laid up. Undoubtedly infection from the slip. David, Teora, and I landed at 7. The typical land "ee-ee" kirbyfisher is common here; we have taken several. I heard the same chop at Hastings. The same run of birds were brought in. Teora shot a gray fly -