and a short grass covers the ground in between the trees. All birds appear in this except 1 rail. Within this area occur of course all the different stages of garden rotation scrubs but owing to soil exhaustion these range through 10 or more stages or periods of growth. Many such areas have been put under coconuts and, though while young, between 3 to 7 years scrub of a stunted nature grows about them, shortly before they bear this is cleared away and from then on becomes a permanent culture with grass and low shrubs etc. which are generally cleared annually. STUNTED GROWTHS On the tops of the abrupt coral outcrops in the east and all along their eastern sides, between them and the sea and in portions of the north and south of the island and elsewhere where a pure coral rock much broken (probably by earthquake, etc.) and with little or no pockets and generally with a fall so that such weathered rock as would form soil can be carried away to lower levels, a stunted though often close growing 4 to 15 ft. type of ti tree is found. Along the east coast this is much twisted and gnarled and heavily wind blown, all have a lean away from the S.E. quarter. This varies from a few inches in height near the sea to 4 ft. further in and at most six feet in height along the foot of the coral outcrops except where a deep sheltered cavity or gully appears in the rock when height of 10 ft. and occasionally 15 ft. are found. On top of the high abrupt out- crops the sam conditions prevail, low in the south and east to high on the west and north sides looking down on top of this scrub an impression of great density and more or less even level is conveyed, in fact the impression is given that it is almost a