(166) not report anything we have missed except the white heron. Ground doves we must get, and, if David's information that he saw two is correct, the little bush kingfisher. The phalauger is present; very few snakes; and the butterflies are unusually beautiful. For variety of species in birds, Woodlark is not as productive as its size would promise: about 35 miles by eight, the highest point here - Suloga Peak, 1300 feet; most of the terrain is flat. Oct 21- Saltalk observed. No heavy rain for the past two days; it came again to-day. Three men from the Bowater Mine visited us; they are the gentlemen who repaired the broken shroud. Oct 22- Hove up as soon as the light was good and stood out for Grasspa, the big harbor around the point to the southward. Used sails and entered passage into bay at 2 P.M. Anchored off main village an hour later. Charlie and Timothy down with fever. David, Teora, the half-caste, who rode down with us, rowed over to Buk-ua, a small island, where we shot about 30 pycaras - gray, like the Solomons, and the white (like New Ireland. I also got a sterling and a white-headed "kni-kni", the prototype of the famous Solomon salt-water kingfisher. The birds of Woodlark are scarce - yet