(182) lump of rock 1500 feet high. The highest part is densely vegetated, but in others there are great patches of grass. The rest of the little group, in plain view, show similar bald spots; some are nearly all bare. This kind of land suggests volcanic origin of a more recent date. I doubt that we find much here. Nov. 1874. Four hunters landed at 7. Although the is- land is inhabited, the bush is all for goats-sheer and precipitous, mostly blackish rock. The only trails are brief-up to gardens. We found climbing al- most impossible. I wish we had gone on at dawn to the big islands. This Amphlett group lies ap- proximately 15 miles N of Ferguson Is. at lat. 9° 15' 5'. Long. 150°-50' W. Wamea presents the only and- sage and measures about 3 miles X 2 miles. Uresi is of similar size and is very bare in appearance. Two other islands- Wawiwa and yalwaia with a dozen tiny islets complete the group. The south- emmost islet of the lot is only 4 miles from Fer- gusson. The few birds represented here will un- doubtedly be migrants, originally from the big D'Entrecasteaux Islands or from the mainland via this land chain. We took very few- crows and hawks. suckers uniform with species already taken since Woodlark. Both th glossy and gray-headed fly-