238 the description of iris color is misleading in most cases where the captain and Charlie permitted themselves the interpretation. The locality and date is correct, of course. I tried to rectify these errors as far as possible - namely, changing all the sex signs and guessing at the iris colors on occasion where I could accurately surmise from past experience examining related species - lorises, doves, kingfishers, and fly- catchers, for instance. There are about 250 skins, which include some very desirable material - the paradisea decora from Nor- manby Is. (this species was encountered on Ferguson but was not taken); they found it difficult to secure full-plumaged birds, most of the specimens being young males or females. A new edition of the nasiterna pigmy parrot was taken on Normanby; fantails, thickheads, weaver-birds, flycatchers - were found to be quite common. The unusual aquatic birds from the lake on Ferguson make me wish I had never gone to Burma. From the boys' reports they missed a good deal - grebes were reported and there should be a rail in this kind of country. The natives