(349)360 One Strix alba brought in by a native who wounded it with an arrow when he saw it sitting in its hole high up in a big tree. Many of the locals had never seen this bird before. The rarest species in the collection to date are: Spiloglaux sp., Ceyx lepidus. Additional specimens are needed to fill good series of the following: Micropsitta, Phylloscopus, Charmosynopsis, Graucalus lineatus. At work with others putting up birds. Weather fine and clear. April 13 (Sunday) Three of the hunters went off to visit their villages some miles distant taking their guns with them. One boy brought in three fruit bats which gives us a series of II. Another small owl returned but so badly shot that it could only be put into alcohol. No mountain birds taken to-day. The collectors have to go about two hours in order to get into highland forest, the terrane around Arorla being covered with garden land and secondary growth. About the only mountain bird that is readily obtainable hereabouts is the brown fantail (Rhipidura