(161) Oct 16 Cleared out of Bulamadan at 8 A.M. with all requisite documents, steering out channel and making for Suloga under power. Heavy continuous rain until we anchored inside Rubana Point. David, Charlie, and I landed. Teresa has fever. This is the one point where there is any altitude on the island. Terrain mostly a brown, crumbly soil with plenty of stones-rough as usual. The natives have decreased 33.3 in the last ten years, so there are no tracks. I noticed the lack of small birds immediately. Managed to call up three honey suckers-a new species-black with a faint tinge of red on the top of the head (male) like the Solomon honey sucker; iris, dark brown and white on the inner side of the secondaries. A gaudy, red-billed parrot, resembling Rennell Is., and San Cristoval is very common. They are tough and feed very high. The call is unusually variegated-a buzzing whine most the time. David got two beautiful, white pigeons, which natives say are quite common-iris, a dark brown-feet, lavender-hill; green, a lighter shade at the tip. He also took one fly catcher-glossy blue with a peculiar mouth-bright orange, like pumpkin on the inside. Suloga peak, the top of Woodlark reaches maximum 1300 feet, so there can be no bird variation by elevation. The only aboreal dove