(171) birds. Three species immediately come to mind as main- land kinds - a magpie (a butcher bird), a woodpecker (Cameron calls it 'leatherneck'); and a black insect- worous bird, having a flare on its extreme lateral tail feathers. Sequoiguoi is the native term. The little thrush-green 'sheen' honeyeucker is here and with the glossy flycatcher makes just two species of small birds. Mr. Cameron is quite intelligent about the birds and informs that several kinds he be- lieves to be migratory - the 'ee-ee' kingfisher, two species of pigeons - the white (known as the Torres Strait pigeon) and the gray 'koom' (Solomons). There is also a large bird known as 'pulo' in native; Cameron calls it the 'storm bird.' This and the white-headed eagle-hawk we have not yet seen. The ground dove is the same as the Bourbonloir- Woodlark species. The cockatoo is lacking and very few of the red parrots. On the whole the avi- fauina shows a marked transition from Wood- lark and the Marshall Bennett group. We have here, perhaps, the meeting point of two migratory chains, diverging generally E and W. I was very careful to enquire from several natives whether or not the new species encountered by us here, coming from the East are present on Iwa, the nearest of the Marshall Bennett group. All were