BIRDS - NEW CALEDONIA L. Macmillan Page 3 SKIN 3b LICHMERA - ♂ Left testis completely; right three-fourths enlarged. White. Soft parts as in preceding specimen. Shot 7:30 A.M. Weight 15.65 grams. No moult. Wing "slight abrasion". Tail - "fair abrasion". Stomach one-fourth full of insects and nectar. Skull completely ossified. SE New Caledonia - Baie des Pirogues Coastal Camp Thursday, October 20th, 1938 WEATHER - Variable, sun,cloud and showers. Light south wind. Clouds 80 percent. BUSH - Swampy areas with swamp grasses very dense and widely spaced "Nossle"? trees up to 30 feet. Heatherland hills with much bare ground, tussocks and flowering and non-flowering shrubs mostly 2-3 feet in height and odd ones up to 6 feet. Many Bottle Brush (BANKSIA) types in flower. Patches of thin? bracken fern with denser ferns along the foot of hills. BIRDS - NOTE - Many birds commenced a dawn song of considerable volume. This morning, some ten to fifteen minutes before the first dawn showed. A full and complete volume of sound was in full swing by the time the first grey light began to appear, though no birds seemed to be on the move until daylight was well established. Saw two CORACINA, a number of ERYTHRURA, all in parties of two or three. LICHMERA as usual the commonest bird, being fully 70 percent of the total bird life of the area. GUADALCANARIA fairly numerous but shy. Calls are more liquid and distinct from LICHMERA. LICHMERA is bold, GUADALCANARIA shy and retiring. HALCYON seen by (But?) extremely shy and not allowing approach closer than 60 or 70 yards. Probably because it attacks domestic poultry it is shot with 22 calibre rifles a lot & it has become very shy near dwellings. A few GERYGONE