(163) blue-black male. The small birds seem to keep to the tree-tops and only come on persistent calling- the calls of both flycatcher and honey-suckers here are like other species of the same genera encountered in the Solomons. The screech of the parrot, so common here drowns out all the other birds; it sounds more like the swing of a rusty gate than anything else. The captain was eminently successful in get- ting the shroud-plate made; he reports numerous white pigeons amongst the mangroves. Oct. 18- David down with high fever. Charlie and Teora went away close to the ship and I made a wild goose chase in the small boat up to the head of Suloga right where I saw numerous birds but only got four - a white-eared kingfisher and two honey-suckers and a flycatcher. I have at last got the species straight - there are only two - the black and the one with the blue sheen; of the latter we have taken several young ones, which show the gray head which I confused as a new species. The female of the black species is a greenish gray with slight red on the head. Teora contributed a hawk. Both boys did much better than me. I visited three mangrove patches and took one trail in the bush up to a native settlement. I saw several species not yet taken - a large white heron, ground dove, and two others. Everyone seemed