BIRDS - NEW CALEDONIA L. Macmillan Page 23 Monday, March 20th, 1939 WEATHER: Dull and showery till 8 a.m., then fining a little with odd watery gleams of sun. Clouds almost 100%. Cloud carry from the S.E. Odd glimpses of sun at 10 a.m. but the rest of the day few intervals of a matter of minutes without rain occured. Clouds 100%. Cloud carry from E. BIRDS: Not very active and seem to mistrust the weather. Nothing unusual seen. Note Aplonis generally in small flocks high in trees. Corvus in small parties up to 4 or 5, generally in middle layers of forest. Edolisoma in family parties up to four, generally high up but do come to middle layers of the forest occasionally. All the usual smaller species seen. Zosterops flav. is certainly at present rare in the forest. It is noticeable that the flower pecking species such as Myzomela & Philemon are more noisy in the wet weather and quieter in the fine intervals. Though it is worthy of note that very few Guadalcanaria have been seen or heard in the wet weather. It was very noticable that most species were feeding higher in the forest than usual this morning. Eopsaltria was this morning feeding mostly from 20 to 30 ft. up in the forest. More Myiagra than usual were heard and 2 females and a male were seen in a very short interval. SK.NO. 36a RHIPIDURA (s.v.) R. spil. verr: Male ad., 1/2 minus, (repose), White. SHOT: 6 to 7 a.m. WGHT. 12.65gm W: 78 TL:90 SKL: C.O. STM: 1/4 insects.. MOULT: nil ABR: w/t: nil