262 Normanby and a week at the lake on Ferguson (about 1500 feet - above 3000 would have yielded dif- f'erent material), and the Bena Venture, The major portion of which was spent in travel. Eichom was able to wait for the favorable SE season and went to all the islands he visited well-heeled and pre- pared to stay over a month in camp on each. And he worked with no Gov't Ordnance hanging over him. Aloha. Feb. 22 The locals having reported an abundance of quail over in the extensive grass land of Yeina Is., which lies due north from our present anchor- age about 6 miles, I took all the hunters over in the whale boat, a three-hour pull with strong NW wind and intermittent squalls of rain. But our efforts were rewarded by three of the elusives - two males (one in a young plumage, much lighter than the mature in a mottled gray iris-whites), and a female ready to lay. I flushed two coeries of paired birds. Shooting was rendered difficult by the strong, gusty wind and occasional rain. David spent most of the day in a native humpy with fever. The boys tell me that the nesting bird lays, either one or two eggs - set in the short, clumpy