(183) catchy are present. We shot both. Starlings are plentiful - we did not take any. David contributes a small hawk. These islands especially the little ones are noted resorts of the two species of pigeons found in those parts - the gray "Koon" (Solomon) and the white "Tone Strait." I consider the group not of sufficient interest to merit a longer visit. I noticed the Tibitian swallow; I missed it somehow around Woodlark and the Trobriands. I am sure that all three of the D'Entre- casteaux islands - Goodenough (8000 feet) Ferguson (6000-7000), and Normanby of similar elevation - will offer the same avifauna without intra- variation. None of the three are separated by more than 3 miles; hence the possibility of isolation of similar species leading to remarkable differ- ces, as we found in the larger islands of the Solomon, seems impossible. Hence it should be worked as one land mass from the chief point of view of convenience. A large salt lake in- land on Ferguson might give us some water birds or a sail, so we shall concentrate on this island. One species of paradise bird occurs according to Russel - paradisaea decora. Nov- 17th Hove up at dawn in spite of its being the Sabbath.