261 she had to be brought to and both anchors let go. The hunters brought back five birds. Among them a "buli-buli" or rifle bird, I suspect, having heard it described since our captures in the Trobriands and D'Entrecasteaux. With the weather attendant during the past two days a bush trip would have been a fiasco from the start. Feb. 21 All out at 6:30 in hope of getting quail. I shot and successfully retrieved one. It was my fifth try and the first that flew to offer me decent aim. Squalls of rain descended and continued intermittent for the rest of the day from about 8 o'clock on. The other collectors returned drenched with nothing about 11 except another magpie and rifle bird. Both these species appear different here - in main the size of each is smaller. The chances of the AMNH collecting on Tagula Is, again are certainly slim; it is a pity that I not the equipment, time, or weather to make a stand inland. None of our camps on the islands visited in this territory of Papua have been thorough to any degree: a week up at Goodenough, Charlie and Teora spent one night in the rain on