Scared up a wild (?) chicken patterned like a jungle fowl. Mr. Stock- well lets them run wild, occasionally adding a rooster. Came out on N.W. Sand beach which extends to within 200 yards of the N.W. point. The north end is all undercut shelf with a few small patches of beach. Came upon a small one of the large red-brown "coconut" crabs. Recrossed the limestone area by another trail and traversed the length of the well kept coconut groves and cultivated areas to the south point, where there is another small area of limestone. Had a 'welcome bath in a real bathtub and excellent supper and evening with Mr. Stockwell. He had only just returned from America, and had stopped at the Bishop Museum when in Honolulu on his way south in August. He says that we are the first non-official callers since the visit of Von Lucknor in the German raider. Tuesday, Spetember 9, 1924. Ashore at 6:30 and further collected in the north limestone area. When the tide became low walked around the north undercut shelf and beach. Collected a few small landshells on the leaves of shrubs and trunks of small trees. The plane greenish gray shells on rock faces. Reddish-brown, purplish and cream white land crabs and red legged hermit crabs very abundant in limestone areas. Along the north face the white butterfly with black (and brown) and yellowish marking very abundant. Its caterpillars feed on plant No. 537. Saw a flock of 21 "flying foxes", (large fruit bats). Tournefortia blossoms with swarms of the black, white spotted butter- flies about them. Roll 66:1. A cluster of the black, white spotted butterflies about a (11545) Tournefortia blossom. Down the east side of the abrupt transition between the limestone and volcanic portions. Waded out on the reef and took:-