(176) [illegible] fairly well, bring in a new bird - a sort of small dove, gray with a brownish striped breast - iris-dark brown, bill and feet, grayish. David says it feeds in low trees, or fruit, like the dove. It is entirely new to me; I call it a "flat-head". A striped-breast hawk was also brought in. The natives provide plenty of good food here. They are a scaly, lean-and-cadaverous looking bunch, all Methodists. Nov 3rd - I sent the three hunters out and busied myself with cleaning up the hold; as a result my temperature jumped up again and I spent more misery in stinking blankets. Another new one to-day - a thickhead - dark olive color, with no markings. David got the female "flat-head" or whatever it is, to match the male taken yesterday. Other species were added to. The natives brought in a fine, large snake - about 7 1/2 feet long, evidently of the "carpet" variety. In its digestive tract we found a fully grown magpie (a jackdaw) - male small, evidently only recently taken. I forgot to mention the flycatcher's egg and nest that I got on Kitava. It was in a creton behind Mr. Cameron's house. I had to keep constant look-out for the three days we were there before I