grassland only a foot or so high over level soil. This type of scrub on the west side of the abrupt outcrops (in the few areas it appears in) and in the north and south is more irregular and without such a dense twig and leaf canopy. Even so it is gnarled and close growing and often reaches a height of 15 ft. in individual trees but the great majority do not go above 12 ft. or less in height. The lower dense scrubs of this type all along the coast are much subject to salt spray burning during hurricanes and even in high winds as enormous rollers break from deep water on to a shallow ledge (dry or almost so at low tide) and spray and spume are thrown to tremendous heights and carried inland on the wind. Birds do not seem to favor this vegetation to any large extent. A few Gerygones and Myiagra being found. Halcyon is probably the commonest bird in the area. Accipiter spends considerable time playing on the updraft of wind in the area and feeds on numbers of rats which inhabit the rocks or cliff faces. Except where coconuts appear in the lee of the outcrops honey feeders are entirely absent. Numbers of Pachyaphata appear at one or two places in the lee of the outcrops. CULTIVATION TYPES These are the usual rotation types of secondary growth in garden but have far more stages than usual because of longer rotations practiced seldom less than 10 years and often longer. All are very much less dense and luxuriant than usual for this type of secondary growth and for the first 2 to 3 years are little more than rather barren grasslands with a few weed shrubs in most areas. In one or two of the more fertile spots lantana grows but does not usually appear till well on in the rotation about the 7th or 8th year. Zosterops and Lichmera are about the only birds