(1891) Nov. 16th Hove up at 7 and proceeded four miles across Morssby Strait into Wood Bay anchoring close to the Mission station. Four hunters landed. The three boys kept to the shore beach. It is inevit- atly a long walk or climb into the best bush for birds. Long slopes of grass, nothy kangaroos, abound everywhere along the coast. These patches are pro- ductive of two species - a small brown bird - a wren, I call it, and the long-tailed mottled brown fellow, really a ground-runner, one of which I got on the mainland near Samarai. I climbed about 1200 feet after a two mile walk to the highest village in those parts. There were formerly plenty of bush villages up around 2000 feet but by government order they have all been moved down. The locals will help us to get up high, if we want to camp. I took about 15 small birds, all around 1000 feet - thickheads, olive birds, and yellow-head. Two species of long-tailed doves were returned - a small, prettily mottled one (iris orange), and a larger one having a glossy back and an unusu- al iris - orange with a whitish rim around the pupil. The glossy blue-black honey sucket occurs here. In fact, we have found everything here that was collected in Woodlark and the Trobriands - ex-