(190) cept the ground done. Here the more common kind shows a white-head in the mature bird; a single specimen of a white-throated species has been added. On the whole, birds are coming in slowly, hence the weather. To-day, it did not rain all the time, for some reason. An old Samoan missionary, countryman of David's & Charlie's informs, that in 1925 a collector of birds and butterflies spent some time in the D'Entrecasteaux group. He implied, he thought he was an American, but he was not sure. Nov-17 A fine day I made it until noon so that the boys could finish by night to visit their countryman. He got the yellow, blue-throated honeyeucker similar to The Solo- mans to-day. These and the long-legged