255 another "spread-tail" in young plumage. I collected several pying parrots - the iris is definitely pale brown. Therefore, some of the Normandy specimens were mismarked - either orange or black. A black honey-sucker similar to the Woodlark type was taken; and Charlie shot a female dove showing yellow under-tail feathers. The species, I think, is white-livid in the male as represented in the Bonvouloir group. The white-eye has not been heard or taken as yet, but a small olive-bird with a faint white rim around the eye occurs as in the D'Entre costeaux (iris - light brown). None of us have seen any ground birds up to date. I obtained a young possum for 4 shil- lings from a woman. The majority of the natives here live inland and are in small villages composed of a few families - agriculturally nomadic. Their loca- tion persists in spite of being ordered to move down to the coast by the govt., for con- veniences of tax collection. There are just two white men on the island for whom they work sporadically. Most of the natives make some- things out of gold-panning,