FOR THE PEOPLE FOR EDVCATION FOR SCIENCE LIBRARY OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY LIBRARY DEPARTMENT OF BIRDS A-M'N-H- . w . W'i ' ■’ v :-V V- fr L* -r - : V:--:’ :* .; : v&t .' , V .'••- . ;< ^4 r .?.^sC-v,:.y t . i * a • ■•.’•. '•■ •■ .«••,•-- .- .. • -4..‘ 4 .v- - vM- •. •: *T'- K V-- •:■ c - j'-'-.;'. ■ ;.-'' vva • -• :v .• mSk ; ; «fe j»R;«k ss§ k sa£S&& m t- ■ i. .v^ -• ,4-. -* .• :•■ v v -* 1 . Uk WHITNEY SOUTH SEA EXPEDITION OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ' n Letters and Journal O'-'* 1 - ? 'i- of Jose G. Correia from June 4, 1925 to October 18, 1926. Tonga Trip, via Kandavu. June 4, 1925. We left Suva about five oclock in the afternoon and arrived at Kassalica Bay next day at five in the afternoon. June 5. After we dropped the anchor I went ashore to find out about the shearwaters. The Chief told me that it was too late for old ones but may be a few young ones yet. It was too late today so we planned to go up tomorrow morning. June 6. Saturday. I engaged a guide for six shillings, to show us the place sfoere the shearwaters are nesting, and to help us to find them. After two hours walk over the hills we struck the first nesting place. There were many old holes but with no birds inside. Our guide knows every hole on this mountain so after he looked in one, he went right straight to the other, ^e saw trails all over the mountain where the shearwaters were nesting, and a great many of the holes were empty and only five birds were found — all gray- baoked. I asked my guide what the people were doing, going to that place over the mountain where the shearwaters were nesting, because we saw many trails all over. He told me that the people went there three times a week to get shearwaters to eat. It is too late to find old birds because they start coming in Mhrch, and during March and April the people kill many hundreds and take the eggs, but they stop killing them during May in order to give the younger birds a chance to grow up. In June they start killing the young ones for eating, so this is tbs reason that very few are left in the holes. ,1 eaiit 5a nook'rej'ii- e.-J iti moloc ev T' , ~t •: •. --mo-: 5’tel ob •it< ©rfrf «Jt ovi*' *» ^w> izoa. xolX^sb*^. rfrt Y )r r.n:"' , ■! arc :sjs I 7«£6a* : '.erfl car te5 A - ' oc.Y: fclo *ol erfj»X oci s^.v it rfatfrf ea bLoi teirlO «rf.T , easing auerfe oii m cs \,rfl>crf ©;*sX oo -t aissr *x .,;*y *$«© £n&;c'< w© 1 ! s erf \exti rfutf gt- ic ,.■■ . -lii'JC"-: i.ro*r-.r." 5 qxr c:-a oi fcecmsj'c;; a© wo/ie erf , a:jci.''iWe sis ’xcl ©Lir.. a Jo sr. ^rc I .•%&<&$ &c .3 »:.a T , "t orf e*r qlorf oi Lob Liliana eie sas5i3wis©rf« Mi sqec&r ©oelq erf? ieiirf ©rirf aoxnrfs ew elllrf ©Hi -revo iUjsv.- eaccd cwrf *e 5rfA .void •efeiaiii ts.o'xirf on .r r 5Y? lad eoloxi :>Io '^a/ser yaecr ©aerfl .©oaXq Krtirfesr? ri bo-AooI «d *r©rfle os al-srf m/oci airfrf aso elorf y?.~7© areas eJbJtar, ’an' t r: LJ.b \iunt v,-:-3 c>' , - jo ofc o' rfrigi&arffc if.fM im** mi ,e ■ ypiv' J33-T3 w .• a- (^oiiaen »»; eteirv-taoris erfrf eiorfv ai*dxu;oar mft. -\rf?i8 - f .l» — Dftffo't eaew e£*tM wit yln6 1/xft ^Jqae ©aes a© led «s.ii ‘to ,to:-c ,if is£i oi sales , salat exaw elcroeq 3i£rf tsri|r ©files vn £tras*i X ■raoijoerf f sairfa&xt s*ew eas.tn'nceeris at!} ©aerfir aieiaraa erf-5 *tev© ©aalq owrfJ iaew elgooq sxfrf rf&drf ©m file* eK .ae”o ffe attaarf ^aofis erf »g«I eojf el -51 . 5*se orf fc’&&fc < xft£rf8 rf®» orf ‘rfeev/ x ©c-mt ? eetitJ rfoa#/ gal-siTb .rfetfA- rl snl®©’® rfasjt. qexfl ©e..v.Ofwf stiirf lie 5:. ,a§J>e ; ’«i :.i~ ? -if ' G ’-' 0 ' Jiiffi rju::^ II r-i olqoet* IliqA x:..:; « etr/rf aesmroy 5 t.yljs erf aei>ac cl v.' v - xerfrf saillix qc5e •tei --:£ .;y i; iriJ-i rfisie y r ?rfrf ©mil cl wc a r orf 'OoisexiC , ••..<■ ::i oi '' ' i ui ' -v ■: :.-. , or With the aid of the natives, whom I paid a shilling each, we collect- ed about twenty in two days. A few land birds were collected, too, and when we could find no more shearwaters in ths locality we sailed out to the west end at noon on Monday and dropped the anchor again at Tulaulia Bay near the Mount Washington about sunset. June 9. I went ashore at daybreak and took two men with me to start up Mount Washington. The only trail over the top is on the east side of the mountain, but at some places we had to use our hands and feet for climbing up. The bright -red-breasted parrot was calling, and a few parakeets were seen at different places . I wanted to engage one native to guide us to the place where the shearwaters were nesting on the mountain but they all refused to go because the mountain is too rough, and they said that noone could go to the place. We went up anyhow. From half way up no birds were seen except a few warblers and one wren, and at the top I saw only one green dove. There were no shearwaters inside the holes. We went all around the hill where a man can go, but nothing was found. At the northwest side of the hill was a cliff all covered with woods, where the natives told me the shearwaters go to nest, but noone can go there. As we came down we collected a few yellow doves near the village, and a few parrots, and other birds. June 10. In the morning we came around Cape Washington and dropped the anohor inside Denham Island near the Mbukelevuira village. The weather was a little rough on the south side so we could not go out looking for shearwaters, but we spent the day collecting some land birds because the black shearwaters are all out now and come in for nesting - .If f!V . , .3’. 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Ja ?Jr;M i->dic i>£te oo;qoia toigaidaoW ©qe.O brne'sn ©ttso ©>/ 'irxx mow: «fi qn / T t* vxr nesting in September, but the natives told me that they killed many for food. Kandavu June 11, 1925. We went out to sea early in the morning to try for shearwaters, and although we went out over ten miles but there were no shearwaters inside, and the sea was rough for lowering the boat. We waited until nine oclook and got out a few miles more, o I saw a few black shearwaters but over a mile off and they did not come near the ship. It would not matter if many came for we could not get one because the sea was very thick to use the boat in such weather, so we came back to the anchorage about noon and I went for some land birds in the afternoon. I asked the natives if they saw any shear- waters near the land and the chief told me that sometimes, -v#ien the weather is rough for a few days the birds come very close to the land but go out again with one or two days of good weather. The wind blows steadily from the southeast and a little strong right along, so I do not think that we are going to have any chance for sea birds around Kandavu island. June 12. Fresh southeast wind. The time goes by and we have a long road to go with a head wind. In the morning we went out to the sea to look for shearwaters, but there was not one near the land so we sailed south fifty miles or more, all under thick weather, to look for shearwaters. Occasional shearwaters were seen about a mile away but we could not lower the boat in that high rolling of the sea. At night we decide to go ahead to Turtle Island because we had a head wind to fight and the time ran very fast. 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I went ashore to see the chief about permission to collect, and after the permit was granted we started out to collect. The most common bird on the island is the swift, and next, the flying fox, but there are not many species of land birds present. I saw one different Minah here which we had not seen in the Fiji Islands before but we could not get any of them today because there were so many people following us. I hope to get one or two tomorrow. The birds I saw on Turtle Island were the Samoan pigeon, Tahitian cuckoo, yelloweyes, shrike, small parakeet, honey- sue ke r , yellow dove. There may be some more species but I saw no more today. June 18. Today we found no more species of birds, but the same as yesterday. The new species that we discovered here yesterday we saw again this morning at the sweet potato plantation, but as soon as anybody cames near they all flew over the trees and got out of sight. These birds look very wild and the people told me that they never come near them except occasionally, when they came to eat with the chickens, and when anyone approached they flew away. We at last got six of them in the afternoon, when a flock of about ten came to rest on a big tree near the plantation, under which we were stand- ing at the time. Both of us shot together and brought down six. When I picked up the first one I recognized them as of the same species that we had secured in the Azores Islands, and which we erf* itc -gxikIsI eXJttfT ta torfoas erf* boqqc ib ew bn iff iieo.'. etii tealwr . 7C' :s < . ’i ,i>flsl8l •• ;‘r ; a ':o , '.vo 1 ■■■■■■ LLi&i v-- '-’ ' -• - f ■ ■■ - - • " - ' ,*osIIcc .i --if. n errfo enr see c* : : eriT .tfoelloo o* *no i>e*ta*e sw Jbrtfn&ng advr *imi9q ©ri.t te*'* r &na erf* , -facea Jboc , .t' A iwe ©rtf ex BnnXel 'itf'ac Vtfcf aor .-.v o *80«r v;i58 I .*fl»eetaal *c seioeia vacs *oxr ew etertf *i«f ,*o* abasia I nit j at rreea ton iwrf «•%' cjow e-teC fi r;., taoteVHJb enc oa eiov e-rof* ©sxisoetf Y-cooJ r»p/* ^r::’ *•©;•-• ton Mace ©w *atf eiolel . r”i "' • ’. • , f;v :■ , 1 - ,-rx ; .• -* a' * if. J-Cti • X '• ’'• •' - • - . v . . - . . , . - ill's--* , • - •TjnJbo* eiorn on wse I njartf eeioe e o-io.r ©bice ■ ■* e v. eir r erf* *atf « e .0*1 icf Tto ©exoena eiocn ott Mtco* eu? ^aboT .Ci euvl* ■ : ■ . . • “Vr V : ' ■; ■:'/ ?: 1 • ': 0 - • "f . . .» W77f?. r f.fte to.dtfe'-o* *r en ro rf*o£ toilr *s r ;i eoxf. entf Ic a. nerf* tssir^ofcai I en© *8 til: c-ri* qsr baiiolq I nexf¥ en- dots* .fens .a basis I ssncsA erf* ni iet^oee bnr ew #>tfi ■eioeq* called ’Esturnino ’ . I asked the people how long that bird has lived in the island, and the answer was ’only about six months’. I asked what the name of the bird was but was told that it had no name because it was a new species and that noone yet knew its name. This island is cultivated from end to end with sweet potatoes, yams, manioc, and plenty of sugar cane. The forest in this island is very small because the people used every inch of good ground for culti- vating. The island produces very little copra and the natives use many coooanuts for drinking, but the main industry of the island is the making of tapa cloth. Hundreds of yards are made every month and sent to Suva for sale. I was surprised that nobody came to me to sell here as they do on other islands, but they sold only fruits and vegetables. m . June 18. There is no water in the island. The natives use cocoanut milk for drinking and keep the rain water for coffee or tea and sop. There is only one village in the island and there ie one cement tank for catching rain water, but thi3 tank is dry nearly all the time because the rainy season is very short here. The natives told me that the last ship called here nearly six months ago, so they have no kerosene, nor sugar, nor soap. Nearly all the islands in the Fiji group has its own sloops, but this island does not have any. The collection here was small because there are not many birds in the island. The cats destroy a good many birds for food so those few in the island are very wild. After we cut a few trees for fire wood we sailed out again about noon on the day 19. June 20. Ono Ilau Islands. We sailed from Turtle Island yesterday at ten oolock in the Eriticf .tad* sijol wed olgceq M3 i>e?Iea X .’ofiXirradsa* XreXXis© xi* jBoc'fi ^Ico’ am tmutc M3 Jbste t haal*l ad 3 at tests or jtetf il tacit Mo i ass tud am JDtXcf to Q. o*d XJUed sea ew/^eii ..d# b/tts ^**qot 6j^,tlX ^ter eaOafcetq *o»£ei etft .palter -;! •. 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The current set out toward the north from the lagoon on the south side and ran off toward the north with the vio- lence of about eight or nine knots per hour. The main village is on the south side of the big island so we left the boat on the north side and walked across the land. The Chief was out of the island but the man on his place told me that it was alrightfor us to go on collecting what we wanted in the island. On account of the strong current the boat takes nearly all day to go and come back on one trip so I decided to make camp ashore for two days. June 22. There was one new shore bird on this island vdiioh we had never before seen in the south sea. This is from the spina’s family and lives on the sandy beach among the reefs. We collected a few of these birds today. The land birds are very few in number, and on- ly six species — barn own, gallinule, yelloweye, shrike, warbler, and small parakeet. The island is very small and has five more small islets around it. All of them are low and bare with no forests and with no high trees. The highest part is covered with small bushes. There are very few birds in the island, most all of them living round the village among the bread fruit trees. I made a camp ashore for two days, but collection was very small because there is not -viewy.- -retie . <:e .*<. -uiijoe arf* cuost gftXvcXa r^ifs.-j e wiajf iSfiXiTKc erf* fli m^s® Torioos erf* Jj-pyqoUD ©w ,ir©rf*a©v eXtfJtTM* lo »«oil xla trottl ^zw erf* IXA .lec't e.*j sitisiwo ,i>£«s£el rfeJI ocO 1 © irfoi* ©ill af II .ba&t &**& erf* itcia#» *rfsl*r ircatf * Aarf er avJtboA's :d e-- v r ;e erf <’ . 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One man told me that it is too late to go there now. He says the islands are very bad for landing because they are very small and flat, and the reefs go very far off, and the surf breaks heavily all around the reefs. The only good time for landing there is from March to May, and during this time there is an occasional chance, but nothing certain. He told me that two species of land birds — warblers, and yelloweye and a few species of water birds in- cluding blade shearwaters which he says are nesting there from September to December. We cleared off from Ono Ilau Island about noon on the 24th, under the furious weather, with double reef on fore and main sails and with the head siils down. The weather heat us wry heavily until Friday the 26th, in the afternoon; on the 27th, in the morning, we were in sight of the land of the Tongatabu Island of the ^onga Group. 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I cannot tell anything about the interior of the island because I staid down near the sea and collected and skinned them be- for going back on board, because under the heavy rolling I can’t do anything on the ship. After we came on board, we sailed off again for the main group of the Tonga Islands. Rough weather and head wind is the best luck for the poor schooner ’Prance’, but Tshile we were near the Ata Islands we saw one wandering albatross and few white-bellied shearwaters, but far away from us. After the hard fight against the rough weather and head wind we dropped the anchor on Friday afternoon, the 17th near the Kelefesia Islands. We went ashore and our first surprise was to see sooty fly- catchers in this small islet. The number of birds from each island goes in a separate list so anyone can see how many different species there are in each island at which we stopped. We saw that the shear- waters were nesting in this island (Kelefesia) but we don't know what kind there is because they are all out from the island, now, but we saw the holes on the ground at two different places, and some swal- lows, also nesting there. Tonumeia and Telekit onga Islands. The next morning, the 18th, we moved to Tonumeia island, but found the same kind of birds and one more (Clementine dove), and some ground doves, rails, and gallinules. This island, like Kelefesia, is very small and unhabited, but the people from the big islandsused to plant them and come here once in awhile to pick up food. 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After we dropped the anchor we went ashore and found two native men there which take care of the island, because it is private pro- perty and belongs to the white man. It is thickly forested yet and the owner is just starting to clear the land for planting cocoanut trees, but the birds here are the same as on the other two islands so we had nothing new to report. Lai ona Islands- July 20 - 23, 1925. Juring those three days we worked four small islands under the gale which was blowing. There is nothing new to report on birds since there are few species and few birds in this group of Tonga Islands. Nomuka Island Nomuka is the large island which we worked in those three days and we expected to find more birds and different species, but in vain. These islands are all low land and the forests have few trees and bushes which have berries for food for birds. The most common comnon bird was the /tail of which there was a large flock. There are few other birds on the island. It is nearly all covered with cocoanut trees, bananas and taro, but the ground is badly worked. The orange trees have their limbs full of fruit at present, and all golden yel- low. I never before saw orange trees look so beautiful. The ground under the trees is all covered with oranges and the people don't care for them. Honga Tonga and Honga Hapai Islands. July 24. 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' 3 /? er -j ; ' i, •• ■<■■;• • ■ .ei ■ i side as*-" i-.-.i nrrs iXxpd aml^t bcB , 3 © old rid eifi lebws ,bm£ -v ' -0 ? ei attEiei' aiii rtevo I la Ora-ort;.' e &2 •able dSisc* eni aao^.l t^e?» «« ynr TaLae %m ©v«s bae eelcx Toiis»?T£rd 8 ddfir fierfffioo ■ ^...r'+yiiov »qs*c» Ss ' c. . ‘ f:vo Baler ' xt ' , qsj« right niiile I was at the top, hut when I came to the place for go- ing down, and when I had all the trouble of climbing down that cliff, I was sorry that I had not gone back with Mr* Beck. It was too late now and I had to get back somehow. When I went up I could see where to put ray haads and feet, but when I went down I could see nothing. However, I got down again and swore that I would not under- take any more adventures like that. Near the landing place we found a small colony of sooty terns and some young ones which were not flying yet. A few shearwaters were nesting there too, at the south side where the cliffs are highest, we saw myriads of sea birds such as frigates, boobies, shearwaters, tropic birds(red-tailed) nesting there. We came aboard about noon and after lunch I went to skin the birds while Mr. Beck went to Honga Hapai Island. While we were at those two islands we saw a few spermaceti whales and two of them were very large. They went right close to the rocks and i passed within forty feet of our schooner. Tofua and Eao Islands. July 27 - 29, 1925. I cannot say anything about Honga Hapai Island except what I saw from the ship. A very large colony of sooty terns was nesting on the lower part of the island, and several red-tailed tropic birds were flying over the ridge. After the two days of calm weahter we reached the Tofua Island on the 27th, Monday morning. The island, from the outside, offers a good view but udien we landed it ollked different. It is almost entirely covered with ferns but very dense and hard to get over them. Everywhere we saw the trails of pigs, but never saw any pigs. After I tramped for about an hour over the tall ferns I made my way to the top of the land to see if it had better forests inside the big crater, because the outside &1 V'- 1 e- ■ • - hi 'C ! v d d£ I r* ? ‘XT. dacfd : snicteH© lo aXtoord arid X£& X>jsri I rntw bos ,mob &al i :mr i : . . . . * c' Iv ilotaJ ec " rjj vnca tsv. T ,v: iiljuco I qc dce% I eeriY, .woiJeasoe AeM da; ©d bed I Jbcs roa »jaX cod f/?a Jfeluoo I frwci) d::iw X oarfw dxfd ,d*«l btiA a-fcaerf yp to^ ©d oitviv- «ee -TOiiao dor l>xi?w I i*d3 9*sovt's fciia ciajui j«r©£> dc$ I , rcvavoH ; \ -nv ec ;I;r affi&sei se ‘ «««*? ,}«i} etfJI a®Tudx»T&s ertao ^aa *;4t- •; evtm rfoirfw aacto storey eases bm acred %:ocb lo ^ncloo IXace £ Jbacol ■ : . 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'X^ ; T rt*; ••.. »€,* lq x r ' '• flv » fT dJfrf lo oor od bn.’ I sxfd lo qod o.-.fd cj v-^- vr ••..•■/an 7 ssento*' XXad edd tovo TOOdf aJbissdtro extd ©ecsead ,iad>iTO 5 §i cf ©;fd atXftci sdaeicl redded fae-d 31 li was almost treeless. Nobody on our ship knows anything about the active volcano on this island. They knew that there was formerly a volcano but believed it to be already extinct. When I reached the top of the ridge I saw a large mass of white smoke rise from the center of the large crater and when I stepped a little farther I saw the bottom. It is marvelous to see at close range the work of nature. The great lake takes one part of the bottom, the forest on the south side goes from the ridge to the edge of the lake, but on the north side there is a great bank of lava and three volcano craters. Two of these do not show any signs of active fire, but the other one is the largest and Is active. It sends out a mass of smoke constantly. I met Mr. Beck on the ridge too and he told me to try on the west side of the island for birds because he would go over the south side himself. It took me a long time to come down from the high ferns down to the flat at the west part. A few big trees on this part offers berries for a few such birds as doves, pigeons, and a few other small birds. I saw here many fresh trails of pigs but not a pig was seen alive. I heard the barking of two dogs and within a few seconds saw them come from under the ferns only twenty feet from me. Both of them had their noses full of blood. As soon as they saw me they went back into the ferns and kept so quiet that I never saw them again. A few feet from this place I saw a young pig killed and laying on the ground, already partly eaten by the dogs. No people have lived on this island for many years since the volcano broke out and killed many people and buried the villages under the lava. The people from the other islands used to call here once in a while to collect copra and try to catch wild pigs. 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On the west side it has a little flat piece of land with a few cocoanut trees on it. We had some difficulty to find a place to land but at last we found a good place on the west end, on the rocks. The ground doves were the first birds to weloome us on the beach. After we had tramped for a little while over the ferns, we reached the forest, but it was very dense and full of vines. There were very few birds on it but we collected a few of every species, and clear out under very rough weather. There was fine weather again the next morning. The next place we called at was Fotuhaa Island, and we stopped at a few more small islands, but did not go ashore at some of them. I staid on board to skin the birds, but nothing new was found in these small islands and the common birds are very few. The people on the island are all lazy. The store keepers here are very honest people l I never saw the articles as cheap anywhere else as on this island. July 30 - August 31, 1925. We called at several small islands before we went to Vavau, but nothing new was collected. jjr. Beck .on went ashore alone/most all the small island, and I staid on board to skin birds, so I can not give much information about them. Vavau Island is the largest of the Tonga Group, and has a beauti- ful harbor in the Pacific Ocean. The most common bird in Vavau is the yellow belly. In the other places where we found these birds they live in the thick forests, and not many together. Here we met them in small flocks among the plantations and right in the villages. It is a different species from that seen anywhere else. Shrikes and Clementine doves are very common too. At Kapa Island I found the first large rail’s nestl The bird was in it but there were no eggs. 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'■ .♦ erf# ai Irfgit Xaa ejioX##-tt*£I ji -1 sirf? »3,. ■;• Of. *~cw lien's nest. Late Island. We arrived at this island on August 13. It looks rough from the sea and is nearly all covered with ironwood trees, and ferns. The first bird we saw after we had landed was a small rail, so we thought that there must be a good many in the island but no more were seen. The natives told us that there were many wild pigs in the island but we did not see any fresh trails of them. Pigeons were also very rare there. I found a yellow dove’s nest with one egg and collected both nest and egg when I shot the dove, a female. I have not seen any more of them here. The plotus boobies are nesting over the cliff so I collected two fresh eggs. No people live at Late Island because there was a great volcano some years ago. This is now extinct. Prom Late we sailed to Toku Island, an Islet which is flat and covered by big trees, but found few birds there. Next was the active volcano island, Fanua Lai Island. Fanua Lai Island. August 15. This island has a remarkable place to land. The active volcano in the center sends clouds of smoke into the air constantly. Only on the north side is there a place for landingeven in fair weather. A little valley runs between the two high mountains to- ward the small lagoon surrounded by a large crater ridge. In this lagoon we saw a flock of ducks and among them Mr. Beck shot one different from the others which he told me came from California. In the valley around the lagoon we collected a few small rails and a large flock of boobies nesting around the crater. On the north . 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Kingfishers were very com- mon everywhere but there were none in this island. We spent two days there and next day sailed for Xeppel Island, the last one of this group {Tonga) . Keppel Island August 26 and 27. This island is nearly flat with a small hill in the center. The birds are of the same species as we found on Boscowas, but there were not so many of them. The most oommon bird is the yelloweye and the shrike. The .yelloweye here is a different species than tne others. It is smaller, has more black and a very bright yellow iris. Prom this island we sailed directly for Suva and arrived there on August 31 In the morning. We expected to find orders for selling the ship and going home, but there was no news from the Museum so we have to wait until the orders oome to find out where we are going home or going on for a longer time. -sea x'xov r:ev.~ BTedallstflS •« wel a io-ef jbeioollo© »w Aa® #i£l cTi *««,« eV, .£>fsalel eirft at ®«oa «w tried* Sad ona^iovo to esc Jeiii edi # ««sXiI X iCiH ntf oelie* ^af> *X0ff oaa ewrt svcx . aaaoTJtiCfo^Ti zttli l ..-SC^Tv? «1 LLLd am* « JseTt v.f*£W si hoe tel «irf ; I .?S Acts AS *eu&ik JiX : ■'; :. ' V •■. I/.- .; • •• • v ■ ■. i * . .■* C ; •'• ttO’iii' U\ , • •• '• • o.'!.? 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We arrived there at three o'clock in the afternoon and spent the night there at the Chief's house. October 3. Rained very heavily all night, but we set out again at eight o'clock in the morning in a light rain for another twelve miles to Namosi Village. The road was terrible. In many places we had to use hands and feet. We crossed a large creek twice, which on account of the rain was very high and the current ran very strong. The water was so muddy that we could not see the bottom in the centre. The water came up to our breast and it took four men to carry over each package , because one man could not stand against the strong current. We arrived at Namosi at three o'clock in the afternoon, all wet and muddy. The Rev. Guinard who lives in this village and has been there for the past thirteen years, received us in his house. The Rev. Father Guinard is £ .1 v ' i j . o;:» I 2 i j ; ,} r/ a i ; sc mil . •> if q / x •; ,'f to -0 r ii o .? r, ; rsToo 1 o 1 c ax ■ du j-i &vM S't el 1 ; xi'B o».. 'cats niaS .S&QfiJva ijg jairxali BMCi-Ji . i tig x a 1 1 e §a.c Og J cj9> f &rta ;too In ' c .2 tofoioO 3.4 6 n# r tsi ;■ I U. 3 -:' ■: x: v 3 aw grrx. TOfn 0 ^ nl « I r .«. oxov o ?rZ MS nl ©no 9HUBoeJ , o^.-ijrl-sjiq ifoas i©vo ,:T'x ..* c o:i tier: %j/at Jt&otf ?*'■■ .. J TO XflOTiB Xliti J ,i fIXJig X BOXjJB 1©« B£ 00 iU -,i ,sx . ©v, qfe.eq o, •+ to 1 ? ot • aoed baa 9-sIIiv 20 a priest and a model of virtue. He lives in the middle of the mountains like a true Catholic hermit. He only believes in serving Cod and the people whom he loves like a true Father. His home is very modest and poor, showing that he takes better care of the people than of himself. Monday, October 5. The rain has not stopped yet. This morning it fell heavily and the creeks ran very swiftly. At nine in the morning the sun broke out, but only for a few minutes, and then the rain fell again, but more lightly, and con- tinued all day. I went out with the Rev. Guinard who showed me the road and the places where I could find Thrushes, Black- faced Finches and Ground Doves. The road and fields were terrible, all full of water. A few Thrushes were found at the edges of the creek, but they all went like lightning. At last I got one Thrush and one large Sooty Flycatcher. I saw no Black-faced Finches. I did see two Ground Doves, bizt had no chance to shoot. These were the first Ground Doves I saw on Viti Levu Island. One Thrush's nest was found by the Rev. Guinard, but it was not quite finished yet. We were out until three o'clock in the light rain, but after that the rain began to fall heavily, so we came home with very few birds. The Rev. Guinard got a young tame black Hawk only seven weeks old. It is a beautiful specimen. He told me that he had tried very hard for more than six years to get one of these birds, but in vain, because the old birds eat m 8l6fc- : '/n ©id n e fjvil > . pu.fa'te ", p-bo.r & baa d • • :• 2“iq; a . esvol srf rior/u ©Xobi erf? ban boC :• n ivies n 1 sw elled ,rooq ban dee&o 119 ? c c oriod eiH ,neriW. eired a s»: X £ Ofltfd )1 [090 ©rid lo 9X480 18dd©d S9.’‘3d 9fi rffidd SUSlWOffe .lleerairf .5 "..ado 1 oO t v;afeJ3oM XI 9.1; di $ii rn-xom SJtdl .dev beqqoda dor* sad aiai erfT • ©rfd ai oaifl rfA .lildliwe ^'xev £~ x eriaoio arid baa \;XXvB9ri , 5 9 dim.CiT wot ^ toS ;Ino do cf , ddo erioitf awe ©rid gainioi: •300 boa -,Y;IJrigiJ[ 010 m docf , uba-gs I S e' } oiax ©rid redd 5 its o-riw fnaq.ro© .voH 9 rid rfdiw r/ 1/0 dr vv I . vafe IXa bexmid brilS £1 •too I oieriw saoaXq erid baa bn ox 0 d an- bovorfe raoi c-n .' s"o; ;t-" It s h-j . . :•;•••;. . ' ■ , ecrf?,,vT. ■' A .-red aw So Ils$t. 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The back, from the bill to the end of the tail, is a dull black, and breast is dark brown with black stripes. The iris is dark brown, the legs a greenish yellow, and the bill light gray. Only three pairs of these birds were seen once in awhile flying over the mountains very high up, but each pair lives many miles apart from each other. The Rev. Guinard told me that one pair lives near the Namosi Village; one lives five miles to the east, and another, ten miles to the west. He says the Hawks nest from June to August and then go to the seashore for fish- ing and rest on the cliffs near the sea, but once in a while they go over the island. It was told me by the Rev. Guinard that when the young bird broke from the shell, it was carried away by the parents to another small cave near by on some shelf of the cliff. The two eggs were seen a few times, then the next time the eggs were found broken but the young birds were missing from the nest. T Vhen suddenly the old bird flew away from another small cave on some shelf of rock, one man went in there and brought out only one bird fully hatched, but the other bird was not found anywhere. The pair of Hawks living five miles to the east have their nest in the cliffs where it is very difficult to get at them. A few weeks _f£ -mrid to? Boo? bnii o n r> . ns lfooo B.:, i 3 ;i • . d 5©w. ;m'cT sirfi OR : r.av ; a;.: ©! blod 6-i i : € ,vef. eci .II oris $/Cd hot'-' ^ewe ©tfoTd n ■ no oirf &©■': -.ns ero/i '■ to gttvov ©rid deign oio r J&eri erf da id b: - .& ■ i :■ c. r rr : .-r:n.\ • i.aaTx "bog rn rialTt 5ne daera do I rod , : r o©: 1 ©riT .©tstaflinlq IX'w5 a t ei ©ri 3 ad , Bio Bsfeew aevee \,I«o , >: r • . I ;b i* • ; , i wt odd ?o -ime end od r I id end r»OT? el a inr erfT .-asqlTda :i& r.roT? ^aem sevil Tin dose 'Usd .- ■" fj '■ l-.-'T r.f'f? 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Guinard passed the place ten miles from 22 here and seeing the old birds in the nest, he sent a man there, but no eggs were there yet. The Rev. Guinard supplied us with a guide and I sent my helper there to see if he could get one of these Hawks. He started out yesterday, but has not come back yet. October 6, 1925 It rained very hard all night. The creeks this morning were over a foot deeper than yesterday. At seven in the morning the rain was lighter but never stopped. I went over the ridge of the mountain, but at about nine in the morning the rain fell very heavily and kept on all day, so I spent six hours in the forest for nothing, and at last my shells and paper were all spoiled. Hicks came back at night from a ten mile trip after Duck Hawks. He stayed there for two days, but the Hawks never came in sight and the nest was empty. The natives told him that the Hawks had not been seen for several days. The nests found with young birds in were the following: Pigeons, Shrikes, Broadbills, Redbreasts, Gray- Hawks , and a few others with nothing in. October 7. Fog and light rain all night. The Rev. Guinard told me there had been fine weather for the past two months, so he was afraid it might be going to rain now for some months. He says that sometimes the bad weather goes on for many months without stopping. r'O'vl Sr. ;r:" • a ' i u9R erf >■ or: ’ fcopSv* 5a*fllsrC .-re'. - riff ;:y v y . b'tg fix jjO ,veh ©ii’X .dev. »rcerf.j eiew ore Jrrcf , 9 ’ter';?’ ot oisriC isqlsxf \'f- .laea I bro, ofcixrg a ;fefiw air J&.afflqqi/B tsso fieJ'iatfa eK . sS- ?.aH ess.--? lo e ?o ?3g frirroo sii If sea ,o 9 V K'ltfC! OfTfO C .1 Off Bdi! tfmf , 68'. I f <3 i : ' oe?o0 s idt 83Cee-'io arfif .fajafu 11b b Brf ^xav beniBi ?I tfi* .v.a&'rsefae^ «a;{j aeqaeB Joel & levo errev jalmom ieven Jrrd 'isJ.j- . cl sb* nisi ©ftt ^affliarn erief ni nevee tud ,ajt#Jnxjora erfrf lo e?bfa exfcf tevo jns^f I . 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Sfo ’ bnanru’C .vaH evl .* evict I fa uiaa jf'gxl b:.;a , r- riri non owo r Jaaq erU %&i 'redtuoi, eait aeed' miii ioae^ era 9 {nor -'Od nxirr o« j.;io§ 9cf Xi b la ala eav. erf oe no 2003 isilJaovr baJ &dt BotHlt&tn QQ t&dt e^aa aH .flri^nopi . ■t'.A f : c r c x r. tuodtlw eiitacm vrrara icS October 8. 23 The weather this morning was a little better, so we went over the mountain to look for Shearwaters, but nothing was found. Only two old men here remember the Shearwaters nesting in these mountains, but they say the last birds were seen about fifteen years ago. Never since has one of these birds been found by the natives here. Today a couple of Ground Doves were collected and two large Flycatchers. The Ground Doves were the first of this kind we collected at Viti Levu Island. I was told by the natives and the Rev. Guinard that about twenty years ago, before the Mongoose was brought here, that the Ground Doves were seen in flocks everywhere in the village, and sometimes around the houses. Parrots were also seen in hundreds flying over the village; but now only a few of these birds are left by the Mongooses. Gallinule and Rails and many other ground birds were destroyed over fifteen years ago. Not one Black-faced Finch was seen by us. A heavy rain came about noon and continued until nine o'clock in the evening. October 9. The weather was fine in the morning, but did not stay long. Today we went about ten miles over ridges and through valleys on the north side of Namosi Village, We passed through some forest where no one had gone before. The silence was broken once in awhile by the cries of a Kicau (large Warbler), a few Pigeons and a few common Warblers. We never saw one of the birds we were after. .8 T9 dot oO on ,19^00' Vs &sw gniarron sirft Tarftaew erf? ,:&i 4 iavr£i>iy.\Q rto- :loo I o-t niaifawoK ©rft tovo ta«w aw end iscnems'r Pie. non f»Io owt ^I«0 . 6m/o1: ea* r-jjxp’rt on -lit :;ne t’x/d , sain dim or. aeadt ni gniteon an ©la wise. la con is * :ev? . .ogE a'xae^ tsetd r. J JUrodb nsae eiew sMirf tai-ijt- .. 910/1 aevrtBa eriu Piano' nosd cbiicf ©sent jo ©no sari ot'v Bits 6e.toe.IXco errew ssvod Bucoir do alqsroo a \abo 1 "o t-B/xiS: t uis-.v aovod brnroni enT .p.varfotaotl'" 931 e I dXoj sb » v I ,6(tElaI xnrsiT it fV ta ftetoslfoo ©w bnitf s.tdd i£tti9Wt tx/ode tartt bianirr-T .veH ©rft 6 no aevitan edt ^d tedt- ,,919,0 . \h. 'Old 8 bv eeoogaoli add Qioded , co-a ei£ev. cdi ni co.v.r. • r ;n>-r .li ■:. oa c r ic c ' ;ovot T >00 t- ; so or. . aoax/od exit bx x/oi.e Bar- tt ©, ot 6na ,03 el ?‘iv won oi/o jegalXIv arit is to gtfiv.Xi at eibowr! nc -iee oe Is . 898003 m" edit; vc! tfdel e*.t.e. a Di id 98©rit do wal a ^Icio o'xrr. abrticf b roroTg rredto ^nea» baa aXxE/t baa etuatlLal ■ ■ baa noon trio da s/ae© aXei ^Tsaxi A .ax/ nsos eaw doailT .snxa&vo edt ni 2 X 00 ! o’c sain I it ax/ bsxraict too .9 rred.oti.i0i cron Bid tr/tf , gaimdi® edt xii ©nix saw leritnew aril 6 tie sagfeiT 19 vo saXim nst tiro da tn©w ©w \;b &<*? .gaol ^ata S 3 B.I-I iv f bo matt dp adi.a action eit ao a^eXlav dgxioi/it ■ .. ' 0 89 X 10 axit ^cf a X tdwa ni a ©no nadorrd -'....w eoneXle exit , 0 ;• u .73": a baa orioer in a , (rtaltfiaV.’ ©sicl ) x/e 0 x>; .10?*! a eiaw s- .Biid adt do ©no wee rtevan ©V, .arteidTsF 24 After covering about ten miles or more of very roiigh forest and tramping all day, we came back home with two Long-bills, three large Sooty Flycatchers, and a nest of a green bodied and red headed Finch, found near the Rev. Guinard's house. The nest had two eggs in it, one smaller than the other. The nest was very large for the size of the bird. The entrance is on the side and the hole about three inches deep. It was built in a tree about thirty feet high at the side of the road. These Finch are very common here. October 10. It rained very heavily all night and up to nine o'clock in the morning. At this time we went out. Hicks took a new section today and got one Ground Dove and one large Sooty Flycatcher. I went over to the south side because the Rev. Guinard told me that he had seen a Gray Hawk nest in a big tree. Two native boys went with me to show me the place where the tree was. It was on the side of a ridge facing the creek aboiit two hundred feet below, and the nest was built in the branches twelve feet from the trunk in the centre and very difficult to get at. So I offered a reward of three shillings to anyone who would go there and get the eggs and the nest. Hot one of the men wanted to risk his life, but a boy of thirteen offered to go. I gave him a string to carry up and when he reached the nest, I fastened it on a bamboo bucket which the boy pulled up and placed the eggs in. He then lowered ?i > 5 d r.^TuS e;v , vjab XIa gxtXqf&b'j'.f boa reono?: ;£ r $« ',S1fiAi vix one. O-.Tfi.C ,f.'£tO- ';-aoJ OWXT bn;.ro’' .n'orri/- do baa? ft or baa be xborf xxasif a 'io 3a©xi aT ^ berl •j'ea'fi ex# .asinoxi . raK gdJ nxsexi ,n©v aaw .'sab &d% .iBiiio edt 8*d3 no [Jams a no ,?1 isi no si aaca'iitaa eriT .bnid grftf *o as is extt nol a^ial tow r .car-.': ssiionx egnxfcf oxrodx. alo/i exir fcrta sbia sxfct '■to sfcxa enj era xij&i|i teoJ tiro 6a &eit a at illad • enoxi licwnwoo %iev errs 5 oai 1 ?; ©eexvl .baon ©a.. ,01 ■ssdod’oO on M oi $; boa Ha vixvami %%&v heai&t JI . . ■ .•Miirrarom sdt at :(c. ’ . ' . • ) ^ O 1o:: rfw&OC* OOiiCGB . rfoOlf grtoil' saJ -Oj as VO .taov I .nsdodav--: ”5oo£ eg-ral a no 6na ? .a.. f anM ;'.©v! S'lcr) haai <3 .vex edit asuaosJ sbxs /iJi/oe s\.£kT ori.iah owT .con.. gitf a ax 2»8« 3twsH ';.otC a ctees .ear- eon. eri# .nexir aoalq oxio or woxia. ol on ■. . ? tr; tuo’-v ■in id* y'seri) adit tyii 0 -s$ o^bim a ? > able oxtt no eaw *2 ert.'J nr Jiiorcf i,-i- jso:; eni- baa ."xteJ cfee" b&n&anrf o?..t &-XXX-. enJnso oii' t., sTm/iil ss.'s r .•n': reel: e" l ■? eerfooanc Jo 6nar:en a: beiM' c I «#a 3 eg o4 ^Inollr^Xb \,nev 3o>£ Site anox or .fit o oxxv ©no a o3 s: nu : We enn'r or betxu'. aorn erf. 3 bo erxo :o;; .3asn end baa egge exict .••>2 03 baroJJo rr eeo'xxir Jo 0cf .1 st 6 e'tll aid da in be iltasn erf r -..or ins qr; ^nnao ol gnircr a a mixi ova^ I oxir rfo'rr r 8> r oxxtf ooexaed a fio j; vdnotba? T ,tfaen exit .xfi eg£e oxitf be-oa.fq 6xi.e qt' -bollnq ^orf bo no vo ] it to me and the nest afterwards. The two parent birds 25 were shot too. The hoy climbed the tree like a cat. It was a bare thick tree about forty feet high. The upper branches were about two hundred feet above the centre of the creek. When the boy reached the branch where the nest was, he walked along it until he came to the nest without holding on to anything. He just walked along as if he were on flat ground. The branch was only about five inches thick. When he reached the nest, he sat on the branch and lowered the things down to me. Then he got up again and walked back the same way and came down like a monkey. eu srf;r fea* exo oJ ,1 i •... V; . * ?a-' c ?■ J e.v. 4 i^oef '-.. r , .00,! Jo fie ex#w & ocf.3 rfoxrer eiad s u*w J 1 erl.f o v o tfs Je9% ^©iJ&rtar? or-f JjjckTb e*ier eerienaacf ”xeqqn no.Oii'icT eri-'J ©rfo-net o.:-y aorf?? .jlesgru nu'J ’to 3 K.o on XiJn.r jj gaoJfi bsall-sw 311 ,a*w J e ©a odtf. siorfw " - -i . eil .-5.0 x -i-.r v;nn c 4 . no - vxxMorf JrjoiiJ i;v 3 3 n orfj oi i> ea^jisf o 4 T .cax/o'xr Jail no ex©T eji li bb gao Lt, btHS&v s*;j fcerieaei orf nem .xoirfcf enrioni rjvll Jitogb qino saw oroo t 33x110;; ©dJ n.n 3 -voI bua doxxncf =>rIJ a- • J.. a oil , j a an e. ooa erfj xoatf boolXisw bfta fit in 3s on J03 erf aerfT .era oJ ion b 03 ! 11 n ob ••niaao ben . *r Auckland, New Zealand, December 27, 1925. Dear Doctor Murphy: A few days ago I sent you a few samples of my bird paintings. I am now sending you another, to show you how I am getting along with this work. I saw a man painting pictures like these in Suva three or four times, but when I tried it I did very badly. When I came to New Zealand, however, I had a few days of leisure so I passed the time in drawing and painting birds. Mr. Beck saw me paint the first ones in Suva, and laughed at my "foolish idea", but he is surprised now at the work I have, been doing. Mrs. Beck told me that it would be a good thing for me to take a few lessons when I return home, but I hope by that time that I shall not need any lessons myself, but can even be a professor of art! Don't you think so? My wife says that I am a "Jack of all trades", but there is one that I can never carry on— the baby trade. But, you see. Doctor Murphy, that is a very old trade and I forsake the old ones for the new, because the new ones are always new! They may pay better, too, but all women are alike, you know, and don't be- lieve in the new fashions as I do . We expect to take the 'France' to New York, across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. I don't know what Mrs. Beck will do because she and Mr. Beck are having difficulty in deciding what is best. Our best wishes to you, to Mrs. Murphy, and to your lovely children, for a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Yours very faithfully. Mr. &. Mrs. Correia *£ttt&UMtS weH . . ,VS 'IftOrTSOei 1 - :ylcr*s>-/.; Tdoc-d ieeC YP -O aeXv-^ 8 p9 "i * riOY Jma I 03B a^eJ5 sel A wed roy weal* cJ .leriJcne noy ^flioac-8 won xob I .a^ni saint i i-iitf •siiow aid* ii$ iw gad- gniiiss xojs 10 souk* fivnE ni oE9d* ©Till e©>»r*oiq gnijiriaq; am a wee I otf am.se I xren:. .yXOeri yia* Jbij&, I Ji fialrri I aertw ,aerf* lad en'.t o&aastT J v e eu/eiei Jc ayeL wei a fiod J , levowcri ,tonX~’oJv weii sri* inisq wn y,** Jtesfi . , eiriirf ;]ai*ni .one o ru= ai erxce ,£vab ni aeao tfeiil Oj.--i.oi) need ever I iiow *:•...: is >* •• .bpeiioixa a- ;-, ci e:r yc~ ' a tsi s bco;- & « ; 61 car ii s -fi * XI t iatoei » .•••■': I ?£f; ■ azil ; .i* \.c eqo~* I ?aaf , ©i.od aide' I j.. • w ...: :• .' * . oiq atf neve oeo itsd , 1 is* p fencer e: •<*. . : , r -ea ioc I XX? ic atoeV 1 £ u£ I iarfi eyse ©liw yjd ?os j£alrfi x/oy i’noff !$•*£ « . taiii sao el eifirfi l*»rf , ". t ■ , ..■:•• < X.u; v ry .fx-n.} ,y •;"'•'••• ' - ■' o'- : • Y.axfi’ I wen btjcwXjb eie eeao wen -..*i ©aneostf .wen exit ic? r.wro 6Io extd ecf #’«o6 6&e ,wrmi noy .eriiis ests ceaiaw Lis tad ,ooi t i©iierr;£ f ; v «»{.•;;' astfoci \- .e xxoxb J Jors evsrf 1 ©ox moi" a 9 0.0 9Vijf( I ;'b 00 e, ti -Jerri?. ©rf-t si airfJ baa . oflO fa ^Cfijoelloo qi is- %fw 9i6j; a ho t? is a. [aria to? £3L r axOi ax eiaao e« balJJ&x ?oc er tb.IJbsw r CO sa boa ,no bead galcfoo srfi oiiwOTs am OasQ a'eefi ..tM ,ao o* of su to? Ogirorrs §s::8 5T.oeIS oao wea T e:\-os to? jfooi of jo.$ o. 9 opus .Is on fin a 4 x/d ,^e5 nif .00 non erff tssei 9 . ; rfiiw ^abTf :• >9Ei Rtf be wo lie? < -'ol • ^IIoM wo? A .01 owj beOoalfoo I orxn v;«>' oritf oi;,x 0 fig It t®:£Obsw ri^croT i ■■ ■ '■' 0- -V. . nr n . • o . : sn don. ~ oxIJ ! o onO to d gnfoja no a >a& to aif ‘ seoTon \,I? aaOe^fl n.f 6oI o : 0 oooaTQo’ -. e :.u- ax no friew . • ef> it. ta'M ao a non 5a»o? ;*. vi.rd' , tc? v aa s e-i.t no fiuai ?: t.jvo Xnew .. : .conns J?b' siiJ a I , <■. arise exit .if nodi to c't o? \;s£ * x;7 ?o sf-.fs dol:' Tsten lieo sv. . t: ' . tab; •• r.oa ; 'nof; av ?j iirtf 7 : > I gob f. id ' OOCf fix. 3 9i iff XW jO'.W v f tl A .B&iiS TO? 9'XO.lSA OflTOt Salxxgri^f Si'fff !«P.T.' . BXf '[led o.t under the bushes or under the rocks covered with 28 hushes. Some of them go four to five hundred feet high to look for shelter. The dog found two under the rocks covered with dense hush. Both of them had started moulting. We had to remove a few stones and cut down part of the bush before we could reach them. Those two were only about ten feet away from the high water line , but one that we found was high up in the hushes about two hundred feet from the high water line. In a few places I saw a lot of feathers from some penguins that had been moulting and had taken to the water. February 5. The weather was a little calmer in the morning, hut there was a southwest wind. ,7e pulled out of the Bay, hut we could not go south. The wind started coming stronger and an hour or so later it was a high gale. It continued all day and all night so that next morning we were further north than before. On Sunday the 7th, we tried our best to get into the harbor, but it was only fighting against the storm for nothing, for we still drifted northward. Monday morning we headed for land and fought all day untill evening, when we dropped anchor about a mile off shore for the night. On the 9th, the wind went down, but it was still from the southwest where we were headed for. In the afternoon we sailed out again and made for Stewart Island, but the wind went to southwest again and remained strong for several days. Mr. Beck saw 6s 19.70 0 p,u: x Si f “1 9 p . ; •; g a -if . fd ea"? - 0l: f ; S' ©9? fir-rfenorl evil: or -xsroi o£ r.sdt ©no 8 .sedsud lobuj ov;i basic -gob ofl’< .i oilorfs sot 3to©I o? rigi/t '\ari ce-rfc} lo rW o?I .rfei'd asasfe as iw feeievoo ed ooi oils &na e ariose - '■ J3 ©to me* oJ hjsK r‘ .nalSI uctn fteJisJe .arau-t rfauaei bluoo ew eio^ocf xiax/d ©riS *o ?xscr mro6 Swo odt f$ok*£ \'ami Hive'! uktf Si/octo v.L'io eiew cwtf saoriT &*if: ax qx ajs-xfit a ms cnuo’t &vr jarfs ©no tad t 9nli 7 at aw .s ■ ; - t J • '■■•-. at ome fire's* bv exit art %o &o£ a me I aexxsla we* & al oris oS ftoifaJ bisd bm nxSIxron need fcj&rf. its sit enlr/gaeq .19 S3W *S .itoiil r o'n , ’.-.ffiuior 9 i# rix -\emlao ' : &!.tti.L a 8 b >• ':esit*ew ©.IT . V *ro : xo bel Trq e'v . in rw S sevvdix/oe s *b« ©ledd tad ■-.-be Sr ate : al'v ©/,1V .rfS«-o- o% .to xi bfooo sr Sxrd ,^3 n^irf a a** IX teds! oe id i^o >' r:a 6 as le^aoids gniraoo It ’ . ' '& 8 ?>fiuS nO .©'• o!t©cf f.vdj S'tiofi lendir/i ©low 07 ' palmer S:.rJ , i .. t OJ. ? ' JO 0 id' 1*70 .' ' iS ©v; , „j? &d, i 07 gn.t/iioffl ■■■r.ar.olS .M-so/ddi an beSiiib Hit a ew to* , ^iiiae -re f I i s , uj : ..x n , j. • to ! 5 ro ferr* i tfob t‘e&#. 9 ii OOv :l c • ‘*0 .■ ' Its ct Oo-TI -:ih ■ r. ijo ft t.s cf , frioft :‘no’' : f*|xl © it , .IS 1 ©dd rrO '.ti-gia .io c Sereod snow -v? ©ir.rfw Se&icfJrros 9:it vqzS. Hite. 10 I' ©bsr 6 hb aXsr-s -1 ;;o bolxsa ow aootii oxflfi 9dS a I " aii' a • :• • ‘y-o© -t ttsv? onir ©xfS , brualel wrxi-a sfoqS *iM .s^afe fsi© as 10 ^: ■ 10^-8 fioaxsnei baa that it was impossible to go ahead and decided to go to the Antipodes Is. first and then go west. After a few days of roxigh weather, the Antipodes Is. were the island; a few different kinds of Shearwaters, two of small Petrels, Sooty Albatrosses, Wandering Albatrosses, Sckuas ( seahens) , and a few other species. The first day that we spent at the island, I stayed on board skinning birds and Mr. Beck went ashore for birds, bizt he found the island very rough to cross, because the grass was very high and there were many deep holes everywhere. Ilext morning the sea outside became so rough that the ship was nearly on the rocks. We raised anchor and got clear of the island and start- ed for the Aukland Islands. As soon as we got clear of the land , the wind changed to southwest again and was very strong and very cold. After fighting for two days against the gale wind, Mr. Beck decided to abandon the idea of going further south and we came back again to the Antipodes Is. because we were only a few miles away. This time we found a better place to anchor and started work right away. I went ashore to see the aspect of the island. From the sea the land looks very smooth, but when we landed, the aspect changed entirely. I have been to South Georgia three times and I landed at three different places and crossed parts covered with grass, but nothing like this. Here it takes an hour to go a couple of hundred yards. The vegetation here is very different from that of South Georgia Island. very large flock of birds was all around ■- • a : iior 5 0 a^sb v.o5 & l . . .- 805 rd :.o XooiA 4 •;?•• A ' . Y A 5 al < & ■ V. ■ 1 ) a A'A :n’: "A ;h ..-.a nntriife bTaotf no f ua-r:o 0 ? n>-x;o'r t:sy br.sfsi srir Auro5 art ?xrr.'iXs x ©xlJ " c- $aJ • to 1 bn« toiiof..' > t-ea'isT ©T T.-Olo BY. h£ AGO e aA ,8 6ns : .1 • x-ilslsA e>i +-' io < - 5s bcfii rx 3§s ;; asm!.} a -3 03 bogfjtsis :iv; erf? t has I edtf *tG J ' ^ YO: -X X 4 ■ i T5G'*A . ri 0 w v;T8V XTB 3 'COT^e .197 asv. ■ olxir v:e A T no e"ov. ow ©sjias©# .?. sfto- r xxfxxA oxfxf g/ 53 AOiiorr^ o;t ooslq Te/lscf s b oruirtf ein r .^sws Oi’.; 988 0? 9'iO-Ja Jti vliew I . ,3WB .filjjXT >fUO'" SetfiSJE '• ■to’ :-oX 5a, f ©if? aoe e#F ino*r r Jja^ei n t to -ye^. ,• . v ■ ©a [? ,19 9££xsrio tceqee 9A> , bo final ;w aortr chvrf , rttosoms ; be&ssi I bns bo: i? ebicfi 3 i-aoar 0 ? need evsrf I beaeoa;: bn.. ;j;9i . r tv. 5 : -;>T:5 Jt-t, wrrf# ts . - ■ . , - . ■ d Of. ' r. ■'-o.i Q[ i \y \ -.k ? > nA oa j.iei 8 'li 6 ;T©Y 34 Of course these islands are quite a few degrees to the north. Here I saw a few different ferns and a number of other plants, some of which were in flower already. I saw two streams that ran into the sea, but the water was "brown like coffee and tasted very bad. On the beach we saw six Sea Elephants, but not as large as those I saw at 3o\ith Georgia. There were two speoies of Penguins about the islands and small land birds (pepets). They were very tame and came to within a foot of us so we caught some by hand. This island has one small house and some supplies of food and clothing for shipwrecks, and is visited twice a year by a government steamer. For the first time 1 collected here two Albino Penguins, male and female. On the morning of the 35th, we left the Antipodes and headed for Bounty Islands. We arrived there next day in the morning, but could not to ashore before noon. Bounty Island, February 26. The place where we landed on this island is of solid granite rock and not a single blade of grass was to be seen. The rock was almost covered with Penguins and Mollymauks which were nesting together, and a lot of Prions, some resting on the rocks, and others under them or in the crevices. I never saw so many birds together in one place. The fur Seal lives here in a small colony, but most all are very small and we saw only a few m i ?7f*i 4 'Wikrp afinslai o&oiid ocnnoo 30 P.;'u or- 9? dfis& •’ e,a agiBl ee doa dx/d efifiilsi end dno o r B aniwgn«~ 3 c eelo&qe owj aiew oxerfc ®V 9 'fs> v ?8£tl . (adocre-qr ) ab’iid 6 as I XXamc ban X'" - : O'^.v f-- .:oo r f - ;;j ‘X rr- ocr &iao emoo 6n,: o.B-?orf ixsjna aao 33d ftaalei a IrfT .baail ^d on,. t SiloeTv jXrfe '10‘S ga,ddaXo Bub 600 S'. So eolXqqwe .a.-£ttr?ji n '- ■ 'MilJ 0 vd 910a £'9? 0,3 1 loo l oofrd eixi arid -ro r >* * * > 1 9 ?. , id os end ". -.ii {-xoiT- end at) ,ei, ?rrs» c i\; oTiV ♦sbnBle. •iinaor 10S Bofcaad Pas ss&ocjX^qA ©dd #n Mnoo di/d , r-niE'iom odd ax ^bo dxsn on. 9/id fcovinxy . no o il ei o 3 e o’ ox 0 dsn 0 if • on .,'£... ; •■ c 0 , ft ■ .. : Hi \ j u ; 1 0 : ”0 B-t 6. Isi nidd no 6ef»ri«I ew easrfv. sc-alq- edS xr- 'So oBseXd el ;./e o doa Bn, iaox »d Jtc. 13 biXoa rtdx,- ft ox 9 vo 0 dso.T!X.y aB?x -sfoox erf'j. .noes *d od saw , so :d: god gnidcen onov; dp.i/fv ainsa^XXo I baa eaxogno? , a: ..ox 0 a- ao gaidaso arc-.. ,sn:.:i- 0 do X a ina *,3 icvoft .. .sooivo'io a. d n t 10 -0 . ■ d icfcan axeitdo . op-aXo otto nx non: : :od sox ref ^oerc oe . , doles f : .. 9 a 1? a 9 " ,9' T X ■ <'>'. X 9fXT : av 9T. 6 na li- ma ±zav axs X r n daom dr/d old ones among the young in the group. Only one kind of Penguin lives in these islands, hut they are not there in thousands hut in millions. Every islet is covered with them. There are very few Sea-gulls and Sea-hens here. This island is the first place that I saw Cape Pigeons resting on the rocks near the sea. In this group of islands there is not a teaspoonful of dirt to he found. It is all solid granite rock which rises from the deep sea with no anchorage. There is a provision depot here for shipwrecks. The hut is just a rotted frame with no roof or walls. It con- tains several boxes with some provisions and two stone jugs half full of stale water. The place looks as if nobody had been there for over ten or twelve years. We found a different kind of Shag in a small colony, and the Prions proved to be a different species from those of other places. On Sunday, February 28th, I went ashore for a few Albatrosses and when I came back to the ship, we started for the Chatham Islands and arrived there on March 3rd in the evening, dropping anchor at Pitt Island, eight miles east of Chatham Islands. I have nothing to say about this island becaxise I did not go ashore to collect. We stayed four days at this island on the west side, but we left on Sunday, the 7th, because the wind changed to the northwest. We could not find any shelter around the island, so we stayed out during the night and next morning, Monday, the 8th, we went to Hound Island. This is a small •rro., oT ,h n,:-lat oe-- i ■ rj r aevil a cixgnfeS \o 3 X jpL c 1 St'- 9 V? . a no i . 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A nods vjg oi j&nidAdn Si lit ••a e*ur. 't:;o' ! 5 eiaAs sY .toslloc OJ siorfsa 03 . •;AJ 5 n t.; . 0 crlol ew 3 d ,e& *:c tear eA 5 no basis ! •?. os . MT.-,i a x »••;? '.-7 b get ieife ,a* ft.: i ton BXiroo , ■••BbiiOlI .^nxnioo: dbcaa 5ns if a old ^niiofe ixxo oe^sia II 3,^5 x si . -tiolal nfttoH 00 aw ,At8 oai islet known by 'Key Star' . We landed at the north end. Here we found two kinds of Shags (white-bellied and grey-bellied) . Each kind live here in separate places; the white-bellied lives on the open rocks, and the grey-bellied lives in the caves on the cliffs. A few large and small Sea-gulls were resting on the rocks and some Sea-hens too, on the grass. The ground over almost the whole island was honeycombed by Shearwaters and Broadbilled Prions; but we found very few in the holes. The Sea-hens have killed a large number of Prions. We saw piles of feathers all around in the grass and a large number of bones. In many places I saw skins and bones of the Blue Penguin. Three small land birds live on the island. They are Thrushes, Starlings and Pepets, and one Hawk flew over the island. From here we went to Forty- four Island, but there was no place to land there. However, we collected several Royal Albatrosses, a few Mollymauks and some Prions. Beginning today, Sunday the 14th, we have had very rough weather or gale winds and have had no chance to collect anything . .>rie ; i* to ri &lv bofeaal e-1 . 1&1 %d awoinf i sls'x ■ fiaHXscf-odf icivs ' sgetfS i i ■. - ;oeos/r a ; a r : on ii aioii evil bar: boas. ( 6»JI t&cf-z&TM oAi B o , eTioai aecra no sovf£ hs t '>?■>9r/fT(oc'.;.9iic;;f saw 6a;. 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' u Mr. Beck told me that he had raised my salary to $125.00 a month, beginning January last, and he also said that the Museum was going to take two months out of my salary for November and December, when I had a little rest here after three years of hard work in rough fields. Please let me know if the Museum is going to take the money from my salary, or will pay me the same as it did Mr. Beck when he had his vacation. The money that I received in cash from Mr. Beck for the past year was 83 pounds sterling, from March 1925 to February 1, 1926. Please don't send any money to my daughter until this bill comes clear, because I want to be square with the Museum in the case of having to leave the field. I wrote you about five months ago, but no answer has reached me yet. I am hoping that you will answer me some time in the near future. This trip down to the So\ith was the roughest one we have experienced. For two months we encountered southwest gale winds, so we never could get to the places that Mr. Beck had intended to go. Please let me know how much longer you expect the Expedition to go and what are the places we may go to up to the end of the voyage. One thing I want to tell you is that the Schooner Prance can't go in the cold zone becaxise she is not fitted for cold weather nor rough sea, but only for the Tropics or near by. Yours faithfully, Jose G. 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X *TO : . .or- :tJ bafeneJaX •to© ree *£«• no! -i • • tr/ .ort worn- 6.” ?©I 0;v © v Of.c: ' r e oia XrriT' f ■••. c?> O' :: rtf i or - b otf 3 i:-c - 'I'U .rtf. . ■■ . o '■ : rtf ■: ■ o blc o ©rf a 2 o> .\a-r )OffaT- i '*trooi»;, tr'tf tfrntf ai co^j IlaJ ro" r 'iOi ladd’aevx n v lo'i bac J cl $ • • ■ i &*Xa ©sx/aosd ©nos . "iaaxi *ro eoiqoni edi *ro r r ^Xao d/xd ,£ r , vX r fr' r iM i£ < r 81 to Y April 20 , 1926. 35 We sailed from Auckland harbor at day break. A few Sea-gulls followed us all the way. There was a light head wind all day but very few birds in the gulf. We reached the end of the mainland at the entrance of the Channel at sunset and dropped anchor for the night. There were birds in sight today -- large Sea-gull , small Sea-gulls, Gannets, Wandering Albatross, small white-breasted Shearwaters, Buller's Shearwaters, and Sooty Shearwaters, but it was too late to lower the boat. April 21. We crossed the Colville Channel and stopped at Channel Island and I went ashore to have a look at the birds. When we called at this island last January, the small rock was quite covered with Terns and small Sea-gulls, and hundreds of Shearwaters were flying about. There were indications that the birds slept on the island at night, but none could be seen when I landed. The only birds that were about were a few Sea- gulls. At night we sheltered in Tryphena Bay. hear- ing the shore, I saw a few Gavia Shearwaters flying out to sea and one young Wandering Albatross. I lower- ed the boat and collected one Gavia Shearwater and the Albatross. April 22. A fine morning, but dead calm. I sent Hicks out in the small boat searching for Shearwaters and Diving Petrels, while I went in the other direction for Black 3SSI , OS .3SCI , OS I .rTqA A .iaaTJ 'r*}b jfl totftatf bm £&$-.& atoiI boilae eV, a aa~ s'csfil e-.i? . 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I discovered a nesting ground in the cove near by, but the birds were so wild that it was impossible to get near them. There were both White Breasts and Black Shags breeding at this place. Both species were nesting in the trees about 50 feet above sea level or 20 to 30 feet from the ground. I learnt from the local people that the nesting season was the month of January. Hicks collected four Diving Petrels and a few Gavia Shearwaters, and I collected two White Breasts and Shags. April 23. I sent Hicks out again in the Channel for Diving Petrels and Black Shearwaters or any rare birds. I went again after the Black Shags. I saw three of them on the sea side, but I never could get near them. It rain- ed all the afternoon, so I had to give up. Hicks came back to the ship all wet, but he brought four Gavia Shearwaters and one young Black Shag which he said was asleep 'when he surprised it. April 24. We are still in the Tryphena Bay Great Barrier. It has rained hard all day and is blowing very hard from the southwest, so we could not go out. April 25 t o May 5, 1926. We have had very rough weather right along so we could not go out and had no chance to collect any sea birds around here. One Black Shag and one Red-bill Tern was given me by the local people, but we could . . .. ... %■:, ■? ic scIj ' 5 r ov >.n .1. bsiovooalb I •3 a : vho \ r : gjv: .? : tjir:. 51 i k oa siok sftM ©53 *ffw en&rfT .eroii? lasa . ri . ; , v.«7 g : , . eo.a I siv'J 3s gaibsarrcf atari's Of. ol OS 1 Xfjvpl S'98. 070.tf« "© >3 '06 89817 ©fli OiJt 3 f -coot 'XsoC 3ii :: 01 ‘; .7: .! . bill JO -£t! c - • - J e .'-r.tf tc . ' 0. 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In the afternoon two Wandering Albatrosses and two vThi te-headed Albatrosses came In sight for a few minutes, but went away very soon afterwards. May 12. Strong head wind. Very few Black Shearwaters were seen during the day, mostly one at a time and far away. Two Wandering Albatrosses followed us, but went far off. In the afternoon I saw one Wilson Petrel pass by, but it went quickly away. Two small land birds rested on the rigging several times during the day. A high swell all day. May 13. Light head wind, but very high swell. Only four Black Shearwaters were seen all day and one Wandering Albatross. One small land bird came on board in the evening, resting on the fore mast. May 14. Dead calm in the morning. One Wandering Albatross was seen far away and one young White- headed Albatross passed by,, but kept on going. I saw one Grey Tern, a new species for me, but he quickly got away. About four o'clock in the after- noon I saw one Gape Pigeon pass, headed for the east, but it did not stop. Lat. 32 S. and Long. 174 00 iS. May 15. Fairly windy, cloudy weather and squalls once . !£ - *'*•£■' - 'r'-: 5 O" fi : J /f J , ;r r .- , ■- )$$ , fi . . »4 &fItt af’iii.r ./T* no oe vxsv 'tjairra jtfg* lucf , eo^iinim wol £ .Si 0'M ■• ’ 0 'C » C .T .OiJ i':T '.vs” ^* 1 Q V .fcalW SiBsrf JsnCTJ g • r>iX - ' v ' i: 3 ** 0:10 ^Itf&orrt crM ^tilrirb as&s btzsti • 2:i o&r.-o 1 1 o$ •:;o8eo < i3j8rfI/. • nliebnaW owl .yaw* tax ncKliV. 800 7.^3 I noo rrstf'U 9.4 Hi .3 To xa'i 3cx*v *od I .[£$8 ow. . vswe ;'; r or;;p iooiv ;■ I Jird , i d raa/ i«x?8'v. §t£.tiy& aomirf lo ropes ga sxM ao r^rtasi afeticf tr;o f IXa Ilewr erf* .SI euc ■- •••' I la 11998 -'i.v J 19 Xt 7-4 . .; t:Iti l>;0^ ao dmS'O oxli fcrtsl XI eras sal .eaottf*.£U goixoLoaV: *^ 8i ? £s 9 ' r no |sn U&ax , palrave ora ai fix.-. ~c ZXjobttaW aoC) .prUux orl'i oi raise. fcesG -elin r gaao . 'eao has vra' xaT neets eaw eaox3,an ;9( , Sjgieo ©tar nno was I noon -.A .-Vi .;-udOi v.ie .8 " »4Au .go ye yon 61b tfi 4 r. d .fins ■ r in a while. In the morning a few Black Shearwaters flew about and once in a while a Wandering Albatross was seen in the distance. A small Finch (land bird) 39 flew around the ship. At one thirty P. M. a large flock of Black Shearwaters and a few Wandering Alba- trosses came near the ship and we stopped and got ready to lower the boat, but a strong squall suddenly broke out and stopped us from doing any collecting. ’When the squall was over late in the afternoon, only a few Black Shearwaters were seen flying far away in the distance. At four P. M. a large flock of about fifty small Finches passed us, flying very fast and headed north at Lat. 31.36 S. and Long. 173.52 IS. A few Black Shearwaters were aboxit, but the sea is a little rough. May 16. Sunday, rough wind all night and day from the south. A few Shearwaters flew around all day. May 17. Rough weather all day. A few Wandering Albatros- ses were seen around all day and one Sooty Albatross passed us in the afternoon. We saw the Sooty Albatross around the Antipodes in latitude 49 south, so this was the first one that I saw so near the Tropics in latitude 29 south. Also one red tailed Tropic-bird flew around us for a few minutes. ■3av»-\ e t . jJ ! ■; e r. ■ n? a I .ailiiw t bso'a :' sd‘|-A .f 'veoiiiA 3 0 ' ■<, * at oono baa 3xkM w & .U , r i \;s%ldt ano 3A .qlris add' Box/oxa rail ■ v.:* '•• • •• - T •■•:: *. ,,;j- ir- Air. aorfi /owJfi ■ ' ::;.■• ' 3 on 6i-.a 6e^ ’a sw bo .. cffrie. eA# %$©& anae 89800x3 -iAo-ia .if ebbf;, : o.nro:-. , • ref , erlt ;•• ..ol o3 aerHiV .&di 3 osJloo \'fta ^aioB «qxt ex; heqqots Baa tsjo we?.® fno , aoe/rxetila a;.?? -:i ©3al levo bb-- Haape arf* Bifr! .f 7 bwb tea" noaa s*ror aietfarTasrfg rs r oaI£ ,. 0 . - £l . - mm serionj . v.a A .k. Sa-.^VI .jjtiOw f : : .} dS,ir. ,3aJ Ja rftic a ' ejji; » t i: aae 9 1 1 . 3 /cf ,3i.forf.e eiovr ax ©3 k.»*r.aeriB XcaXS .rf^aox .31 iaM 9 tit no *13 v:b 5 Ana 3n'gi:n Ha 5niv: rfj^ox n« baaoifc w-.?!’ 4 axotfawxa© £8 -cal A ./(3 nor. . : v;a : ■• X. ::■ ;f : . . ah \ls *lo:- . . v . : roh r '.o ox 3 an r . oov; aao *&ae %&■■: Ha. ftnaoxa >6©e exew see s ' fi cog ©• • ? was aW .ncomed" a -3 it 1 a is oeeaacr •' oc .■ o.i (-3 e . o| .t.'ijo i .13 6 .»• xa a t •. o • ctotT • rf r >. an oe & I .-■ o.:o 38x1' r- -.3 o I A cl-'O'i' bo is3 Bex no oniA . i tirr a t?S 9ba#i3Bl .ea3xmfr- ws ,; a xo'l ax/ Baaoxa wait May 18. 40 We sighted Norfolk Island early in the morning and got under the leeward about ten o'clock. The wind blew furiously so we could not go near the land. Several white Boobies and lesser Frigate birds, Black Shearwaters and some Wandering Albatrosses were around all day. We hove to and kept only the staysail out and let the ship drift at the mercy of the weather. May 19. The weather is much worse today, but we stay at the mercy of God in such weather. During the day I saw a few red tailed Tropic-birds pass us. They were headed north but kept going south because the wind blew from north to south. Two Noddy Terns came to rest on the deck, but they were so weak that they died a few hours later and the wind carried them over board. May SO. A terrible night without sleep. The glass keeps going lower hour by hour and the wind blows more fur- iously, but we will stay at God's mercy. In the even- ing the wind dropped a little, but the sea is still very high. May 21 . The wind dropped a little so we made for the land with main and foresail in double reef and stay- sail until about noon and then let out all the sails in the afternoon and we reached land at five o'clock. 7/e dropped anchor in Cascade Bay. I saw a few Diving m > .d id vjiue huale I - fo* tcH hats £$is ©V, .2100x0 0 rtod GUCCIS blUi'fr-tyj. :>i[ ~ ©&',c; dog xil © 'd ism o"- . cu cl oo -y ( r<'d f 3f>*rj rf Ye&eeJ bun QeicfOoa »d id* i&ve /oi aeaocicVcflA gaiYe&aaW 9/pots feet., sy.&j*fnae&t tIobIH. ' •'• I • '-x &ni, o d ovorf 9', . 6 IJ* ' . . 3'. oi : : ) ct 9; add .; s lit qids arid del Boa d iso .ei vis’! ?ncf , ^.sfeod ©etov rfoum ei Y^ifdaew ©ciT 1 ’■' E& erid Biixi'CI .Ta&d&p* do; a rrir &oO >o yoxArn eri. ebixd~-icrc>i7 6 el lat ior w©l ■ V oriJ .©ex/scsl rfdocs Jqa>T j ,/d rid you 6 ©tear j e-i • ; 8^.p > a*©. ibBoil or# .fttiro*. od a’diO/r hutI welc. ..‘:.T £ 09 Si) S£0 ft? darfd JIBS ©e ST9W \;Sifd ? d ,Zoe b &&t CSC .biaoo i&vo cvsp box’ ii&c fieri?. arts ftas isdal aisjosi . OS ^aM ,3C' eea '§ v<7 -%&£& lurorti ? w i rigid si dined i ibo t,v,v>j;cf &£- l:w erfcr axe si/ori tio< to wo I gaic: oiein e'boO .?* >tjde 1 ; ./V sir ds/ri .^Xexroi. i / - 3x isoe S’-.? d,. : d , o X •? d x I a ftec'^oYfi hriir; erid grjfl -rigid ^4»v 1 ’- : s-:«rr; av, oe sid'd x i x> Becrcrc x r, fieri - -' aril l i-’ J oot dX&sob ./ Ixjsso'Ol fed* . -tarn ridiv, f-.rial slx-o odd I'd d.ao doi ne. d ora croon d-U'ocfs Ildccxr lise * ■' io o evil- djd bcusl bedo^ay e% o;ia nocniedla edd til ^niv-xu '••el a we 8 I ,m€ © rti '/orfoaa Beqqoib o’. Petrels and a few White-breasted Shearwaters flying 41 about the west end of the island. At sunset we dropped anchor at Cascade Say on the north side of the island, but it was too late for landing so we waited until next morning for the doctor to come on board and clear the ship. May 22. The doctor came out about nine o'clock in the morning and I went ashore to see the Administrator about permission for collecting birds. Now Mr. Beck is going to be here tomorrow, so I waited for him to get the permission for me. Norfolk Island, May 24 to 31, 1926. After Mr. Beck gave me the license for collect- ing, I went off in the afternoon. My first trip was over the mountains and up to the ridge, but I did not see many birds in the bushes. The birds live in the valleys and in the plantations, especially among the fruit trees (Guavas). The red Parrots fRozalleas) , beautiful little birds, were seen everywhere on the island. Some of them are so tame that they came very near us. These lovely birds are not protected by law, but they protect each other. When I shot one, the cries brought hundreds to the spot and all tried to help their mate, but in vain. They are very rarely seen alone, but stay in pairs and sometimes several pairs together. Many of them came to within ten feet of me. e-:frovr 9?; tnac »fc .ijtXsIeJt s/it 16 V; o "c.y- ::-/•/ ? :io ’Ixx , i>mi a i ©xit l.o •©}•;%•.. nt-toei e;{? oo aSaoe/sD ip . Tx/teuw ■ & ' ■ e» &« ail o •tasXo kie LiTAorf ac scut o* lotoofe e'i^ t-.ol ^niaio^ fr-fwi .qirfs >.!':' ,s$ sn: ix r in’ c -. c 'C. 1. ?;n • :a 3 "?••).:? c -. ■ onT , XQ3 £*ii 8 Ifififfi'feA 3£'i 8©6 0# 910rff:ii 3a&V i 5*18 'MtillVX ©h 51095 , -.rM ?:•:.>£ .: il.d : ; nxxo9ilco xo' aoiesimt-q tx-orff o# j®frE *iol Htflaw I oe woviomot ©tco/-' oo of $aJto% ax ,8® toI aoiasxrrteq an ‘ fer .6£‘;I , is o; &$ vt‘i ,&obIkI >u«lto£ jo^XtOf -xol eaoeoix wft o-- ,iK i-.ilA g , t l~ t j p*( il \;M -ate " ' e e/ft ax Ho ?u»v : - . T: • eon &xfc I stotf ,3^61 t eat ot qxr bm-;»al^StnaQn o.dt j&vq- 9 di nx svcl 3-Sslo o,1T .Eisasud exf? fil Sfetltf $&*« silt arp i 1 1« cos*-; - a , sfcoitatsa Iq ait al has a^o. r. v iSpel sto-jTjel fisi exiS . .aavsaCj e«Q*r' t ‘ fr vis”.- enjBO ^9ttt crarit acru; " oe eta xiexit lo onoS »/• alt ,V.vX OOtrotO'X: ton 9?: si eiltd vol 98 t fl .BBf j ,r>:.w .’.« o tfoatortq ©rtt C *r 0 be;.-:o Xla fitus toqa ettf ot sb&ibcujd id&nrx 5 •: 3' •' 9 .:>H bail 8*X£Xr f£X ’.S-'H 5 .': J , OHO & •»©: •+90 30v axxftiv. o.t ©st o rnerft lo v.as ‘ .*:-v fte: O' e* There are very few green Parrots here on the island. I saw only one pair, quite a ways away from me. I went into the bushes up over the hills, but never saw one again. The blue Rock Pigeon lives on the sea cliffs, but feeds everywhere in the land. I saw a few right on the roads and some around the houses eating with the hens. I saw several California Quails resting in the bushes, but they are very wild. As soon as they heard any noise they all flew away. The green-brown Dove is a beautiful ground Dove which is very tame. T ,7e saw them everywhere on the island, right on the roads and around the houses and some resting up in the trees; others lying on the ground resting. In some places I saw some looking for food, but never two of them close together; each one goes to a different place. When they are resting, they do the same. The Thrushes here live in the bushes, in the plantations and around the houses and roads. Sometimes I saw six together and most of them in pairs. These birds are very tame too. Some came to within four or five feet of me. Part of their food is guava fruit, but I saw a few scratching in the mud and picking up something to eat. The large black Thrush is not a native bird , but imported. I saw very few and they were very wild. These feed on guava fruit and destroy almost all the ©;(o nc o-isrf ' it.;.-- aae'x’g »s3 ,;iov ati’. 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These birds never go in the bushes in the mountains, but live all the time in the valley and more often on the plantations. 43 The Starlings here have the same habits as everywhere else in the world, but here they are very wild. The common feeding grounds are among the pastures. I saw very few Kingfishers on the island. I collected two on the side of the road and one on the beach. Three different species of White Eyes all live together among the guava trees in the valleys. I saw the three species feeding together on the same tree, eating guavas. When I shot one, all the others flew away so it was very hard to get two of the birds on the same tree. The little Humming-bird is the smallest bird on the island. It is something like a wren. I saw them more commonly on the ground in the grass. When anybody comes near, they all fly to the trees and some- times it is hard to see them among the leaves. We saw the little Robbin (or red-breast) from the houses to the top of the mountains. These birds are very tame too. Some came to within two or three feet of me. The little Pan- tail was seen everywhere on the island too. Sometimes they came to rest on the end of my gun barrel and one rested on my hand for a- while one day when I was in the bushes. She sat down for awhile and from my hand she went to my head. One ai o'f- oo'~c. e •: [r erfi ne - '• s-icr Mi* vsXI-iV erfJ S£ e tf jt ci t i eras o lir fiV’iii 'hi Sgfii (."£*■?& ©rf'- .3nij^8£«t Sf. 7y ; C- osa t • nor-* ct ■: v. v'i:£ J.j.o asvb 9?i;iv, : xrf eo. l oe%a .taa'isVi Jr o eesri. vf£.y t [*t erf? ni: d^si? svsrm erf? S«or?s3 serf? ©go? t eei? ftrfiJ no -:e .lego? §rnbov : soi' b-;d oosrf? ©<• • ■ ■ iio &&• in eu-t or# tog >2 fnad %19V uMii i : •;••'• •>' ; ~ t? onw . '-i i : 5*i 1 rf t « - i I e rf.’ s t b*s i cf - ?sn tnsnrE e I ? ? .c i e * u .■■■-• ■ ' i -::i . ■ l ’OR v. •■ . '• :--- O- ' .seiii-g erf? ,ii birrfo-tg erf? cto vlixorsfrroo finer *»rf? t t i betas a so'''? ox f s o ? \L tie isa? ,'Sjasfi s-smsa < '-u. .ec.> ... I 9 : v. AT ; 0::' Sa'.i G -f L'- -O' l -■• ■tot? •.■' } fiiddo/l edj v*f; sY i if ea .■; tr/c a o o-G,f *-/:,> o- ■:> a a i ? r + »T . ? i so or? cxtjL'irf Iv ot a «0 ef!?0ti .ooJ eirai? -;sftv s’ , o, • " . .a ftc T9.' 9 Y 5 !•'» e 1 Ci.'. X iXi? AV. v ft I ' ? £ ’■ 9 ftf -O ? 3 «t; si sfisao ysaj. seini^eroor .op? .oii-ala / ©a? g^jgrf no botasT sno brfa ieTTfjd rcx>? n.wob ?*58 or: . -ierfs^rf erf? fix -3ar I ireffr y>b ere, - ■ " ;• , b^en oj ?new orfs fitful vr ino-'xJ fim W& trf^r 44 of them followed me one day for a long distance. I stopped three times just to see what she would do and she kept flying around me and when I moved ahead, she came after me again. I saw only two little brown Pinches in a valley. I had a chance to shoot one and the other flew completely out of sight. I showed it to many people, but nobody had seen that bird on the island before. I searched a large part of the island after that, but in vain. I never saw an Owl on the island, but Mr. Quintall brought six to me, two each day. He told me that the Owl here has only one place where it lives, coming out only at night, so he had to spend almost half a night each time to get them. 1 never saw the small black Rail, but a young man brought me one and he told me that it is very hard to get these birds because they live in the swamps among the high grasses , and they are very rare on the island too. This island is very small in size, but beautiful at first sight from the sea. The pine trees all over give it a wonderful appearance along the coast. In early days it was a penal settlement for English con- victs. The ruins of the settlement are still on the island at different places. Sometime later it was given to the descendants of the Boiinty mutineers and among the people here I saw descendants of four members of the Bounty. 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Xa? nor nor Xi ifi art ■-*■■ .<•• 3ar-'- tlt^os & 3 r " c ■ $ria .ob x i r u,.- J- v emrXo/nofi 3 cjotfiriP lb Sa ? -1 i fi d /' ■’ i ‘ f ■ -f Hi: 1 jd odd Jo s&a. ba&oest erl3 o3 cr©v|j , ' . otarf nI;u arc i/d S;.o t ::i His Jror'f.V .ba^vid i • ,jvi*;.rj 5 :a -i ./sid ^:o 'Site o I ^ftexn boo: « oqte eias? s-. • : v - < /ode •;*ts nrrog odd dutf ,e*rf>.i ox' hx-tio ..U.X’i/Xo ' f '' X »•:■ ’1 1 rte b r-09'2. -; 0 : : t ce.‘ .14' •• ; 9 : - :s» 'J to ox " .at-ionm': - lira : «v i t .Sjsiliin.ed ::i To • • . 1 .-. vcf bal irs olc[0eq 9tl&m fife si rtO-M-s.fi/qoq; asZ nee tried ri ro*i ©rid ;o Id nor . ©oxfd oilao -.-e; feeds i. xrt. a jy&d eeaid oiso< .aeBiidsH v/eU line wiX^: v? n. ;u . i i ri^jo’i t'.ii ■'io O044O90 dx • fer t ■ " >■: , SOiiJq - i - : _ alii,!,; »o -j ocffTo/a: egrtjsl fe was I s6ao««C "bones and the old sheds where the blubber was tried 4-6 out. They still have a few whale boats on the Amer- ican style, but for a long time nothing has been seen around the island. Some Australian people used to come to spend the winter here and go back in the spring. A few boarding houses give accomodations to these people, but there is no hotel. Some general stores at dif- ferent places supply the residents with what they need at moderate prices, so they live here comfortably and very happily. Some of the old people have never left the island and never expect to. I saw twenty- three different species of land birds on the island, some of them in very large num- bers like Red Parrots, Starlings, Thrushes and one specie of White Bye. The little green Parrot, or Parakeet, is very scarce, but it is the same species as that which is very common in New Zealand and the islands around. The number of Blue Rock Pigeons which live on the sea cliffs is very small too because I saw very few. I saw only four large Hawks, two at one place and one alone twice at different places, but I never co\ild get near them. Phillips Island. May 31, 1926. After collecting on the mainland, I went to Phillips Island to see what birds live there. This island is very small and quite treeless. From the sea it looks like a volcanic island because it is fr ; - - i»dWM e,lc‘ oTSflV: a50i - 8lc> c> ic ba& f.s otf ■ 'xe.r/. 9xf3 iio aiLiocf ei^riw cat w.i Slits "srf- -Xdsa rroacf ,oii gairfton f-J gitpX a tol tad .oivte ru oi ■ onsqa ocf Bftroc oi bat a olq caq aeiiarteaA oOtOc ?.’ 9 l A .'s-ni'iqa add o c tfosd og Bixe eiorf let civ ©; r . aXcfosq osodS 0 " anoi.i*s&ofnot>o.a evig aaowon gc.tB.'Mioa' ' it #a raiota tax • >93 iw>oL . Xaiorf oa ;i o'xoji.r jfi/d Bosn ^9fti furiw dS iw aiaablsei elS ^iqqtrtx soc^Xq 3 ;ors o* 1 - bna v^-iC'-moc aiorf ovtX os ,«aoiiq etato&Girj ttsl levwt ovs a ulqoea fcl ; erf* to smot , tqq*irf y < -oS toeqx© xaven £h:£# bullet - ii Bnel 'to seioaqa iuoiett in eerrrf ? -%tdpvrt k$« I -a.;a apisl ^isv ai wail* to amoa , baalei ortt no ebiid e«o bifs s -irfamrfT ,e?'ttiX'x«Ja .ed'ObtaX feofl ojCIX «iocf i ( ' ,3 oi'xaSt rtosig eltf tiX erft .o^a e* idti to aiosoa eoxoaqa nmsa add ax 1 1 tad , ©Qiaos \rio ’ c ,? 99 Tfafta c i 0. :t oas oQxiX oS r .eE 0 ' aom 00 '^ev ai no / w j.3 i «1 u- enoe^Xt to:' auia to -reef ' ;a edl .baa ■,* afca* aa.^sacf vo-t Xlaaia *ie? ai sttilc ass oat no eyJX rialjdw tii ox: , jB 2 f«r^H eg.ia I ivot v;Ino via _ .'-'ot v»ao 1 coaler ••‘ooialT. ;:o t - eoi-t araoXa aero &«.•* oaaXq :; • : s S i-3f> J : C - . -x OOO 10V I 0* X.ir.w I ,bnaIcio.- e X no gai ooIXoo i-att/ airii .S’" - av cl sb'x'rd tad* eoe ot ba /s i s-:li i M ; : ' .afv'-Isoit d'Xirp bos XX^me ! ^i#v :i b .-Aei ti Si 98--aoacf ba^Xei oiaaelov s e^il eifopl i uev. 47 so red and without trees, hut when we landed we found it part sandstone and part fine red dirt and rocky. The only birds that were still on the island were Boobies. The others had all gone away. We came here too late for sea birds. I saw the nests of Noddy Terns and many holes of different sizes of Shearwaters and Petrels, but no birds around except Boobies. Mr. Bell told me that the sea birds oome to the island only during the summer months and go away in the winter. When we came to the island we saw several birds, among which were Diving Petrels, small Shearwaters and Wandering Al- batrosses, but as soon as the weather cleared.no more were seen. The residents told me that they had never seen Frigate birds before the time we arrived in a heavy gale, but all had -gone after the gale was over. I saw several rabbits, black, gray and yellow. The only land birds I saw were Hawks, one Pigeon and two Starling. I only collected six Boobies and came back to Kingstown to anchor. June 1, 1926. No more permission to collect birds, so we got ready for sea this morning. It took a few hours to clear the anchor and we got out from the island at evening. The wind was very fresh from the north. June 2. It blew very hard all night. In the morning we were visited by a violent cyclone for four hours •< 3dsl OOd 919. 3T JO 9 >■ . fi .vjB OJjJOg Its 31G:Yo r i ; I tyUir- him PAirB T >H o assort srtd wso I .efnitf set; to':- , 3 ; oid$3 J'Tiii ; rsdso-u.soS o ess rc dqfaisrr ifc a c ? ->!■ xi er ■;o.t I©£T .* ' . 8 e i ffqo£ d^90>:e FjCI/OTO Ori • ‘d ' _xr ijjt ;Igo- Basis- 1 e l or: ©a . o s oiler ass *• 1 da id sfiao aw r:e ."sdiriw ©cid lxx vacs og filers eddnoin lar-fiwa 31 >w jitOlfv gflOi'Ii; , 8.f>*X i- <; 1319V93 ...~s OW 6x ; i J j ©dd O ' -U ■gyirebcw-' fins' anedsv.'iss/lg i fane , sXeitts’T ©*con on, hstaelo isridsew odd r.-,j nooa ea Jucf .as. soidai I'evsEc da ■.$ en ■ Xod Bdfrafci'eei ori r x .risse ei«r .is ro sat -pLo 9iiJ isJia anog. fisxi I Is d;;cf , slag . v.'o ' < ov fin* vai*-, , HoaXcf , etflifaYi tore a way o tf 5ns rto&j 1 1 ©go , soTwbH new was I aticd lino f ’.-/nc Xoscf ©mao nSfc ..exdooE xrs fiedaslloo ^Ixio 1 ,-gai 'yd-?:. .10 •; tis od £ , . T c 1 •• .rjSJil , [ srtal ■ 9* , a vOel Xc •_> )d ixoYas Yiierr siom - , od ’??•': a tfood dl . > .oinio: • ... ru, aet -’.o'" ■■: ty Rxfs : r; oo- 1 woi^ - d so dog .«w fins loriof's odd ijssIo • lid t .i ©do moil .'la ©tf < r ^i©y ss'.v btixw eil5 , ... jj irxs^" s gfi Xaoroxn srfd a i , diigin XIs &•?«*£ ^lev v.sXcf di 48 which almost sunk us. This was the heaviest one that I had ever seen at sea and I hope to God it will he the last. In the afternoon the wind and sea was a little better, hut still rough. A large number of Pandering Albatrosses, a few Royal ones and many black Shearwaters were aroimd us. June 3 . Strong wind right along. A few birds around. '.Tandering Albatross, White-headed Albatross, Stingas (Gigantic-Petrel), Black Shearwater, Whale-bird (Prion), Cape Pigeon were seen almost all day. Lat. 26 S. Long. 169 E. June 4. Strong wind and high swell all day. A few black Shearwaters were seen during the day and at evening I saw one red- tailed Tropic-bird. June 5. ^air weather all day. We saw one Wandering Albatross, two White-bellied and Black- necked Shear- water. June 6 . Fair weather in the morning up to noon when I wrote these lines. No birds in sight yet today. June 7. Fair weather in the morning, but wind changed to the east soon and the sea stays rough right along. Some Red-footed Boobies were sighted about noon and r fco€ O'. &q Oil . co s 8 a ;j asoa toy“ .".e," fi e*. ijoa &fi 6r. tv •r.;‘ aoo«ret**o ■ ©do rri e-ir ill i - : & tt : - .au baucTB ois^ 8 :&J&v:z& 0 fi 8 .$ SKITu . 6a>;o'irf solid" wo" A .gaolB tfrf^Xrt fcnlw gaoTie , sao-r^vidii:. &9&j3©ri-e;f JtrfW , EaoidsrfXA ^.ila a ferial " . 'uoiTi' bcM-cXi j i" , Sc-iia , (Xer-JeS-o Massif: • .c dS . U\3a .veb X { •:• dsomla ctsea ©rsw aosgia 90 r.oO .a SSI ,§.aoJ t 0 1.1 }j \» tfOBi'.f v'". tic. j ©WO OxO ) 0 *J OH : V/ r II ' : ga/aovo .j.'i y.b *o 1 as:e nt©^ e r £B* av^iu ©if 6 ■ o*r 1 . ■-oi' j O'xT 6© J. .ut? o./c l .v;-,R ■ ?' i • j o oo o . \,o i: ClB tcsudsew o.. • O'jM'f. 9xit>r-..-:- r : •:'_ • -its 6&x.‘ [©d-e-t iiiV." owd , aaov-v-dlA • isia?. .0 J.iXT. .1 iiorfw aooa o? if# jjniario/-. ©rfi at lod^orv ritr b > f: o Miis X.;d .,:rai an; ^ ei3 a re rid 3 or. r r .. . -• ao IB " {3 Li i^uci a\a$B so a aoJ &ob 1,00c ctsb? vdi o.- bftti aoc -ttfodi 59?agl« srev/ aexdoof ©ore:.. 49 at the same time we sighted the small Island (Matthew). When we came near, a flock of Booties and Frigate birds flew about us for a few minutes and then went back to the island. The waves were breaking high on the rocks on the weather side and on the lee side nobody can land because of the cliffs. June 8. The sea continued very rough so we abandoned the idea of going to another island, because it is almost impossible to do any work in such a sea. 7/e hadn't water enough to last us three or four days so we head- ed for Aneityum Island to get a few tins of water to last us until we reached Fila. June 9. Aneityum Island was sighted at daybreak. Today is the first time that we have seen the South Sea Islands. The sea is so lovely and the sight of the coeoanut trees and the bright sun of the tropics gives us courage again. Three Terns were seen about two miles off land on the south side of the island, but near the land no birds were seen. ’iTe dropped anchor about noon and sent the boat ashore for fresh water. The only white man that we saw was Mr. Willson, a trader, who came to the beach to find out what we wanted and ask us if we had been in Fila first. Our captain told him that we just called in for fresh water because we had none on board. In the afternoon I went in the bushes looking for birds, but not col- . -vsi ‘tijM* off. Q'si £isa:t on. ri a X3 «r amid emee e J Sfett# ^;XI^ fttta .,X(J00c ; to jfOOXt 3 ,TRtXI OfllSO ew oi sfoatf -jriifi?. aorfJ ona eocfxmlin wot a to':" ass iiroefa ■. -.z a" : or e 1 ao c ( • .ii ,'t, . J slow smw ox£5 ,ori;uI-:. ' s;io ftn... • t it) Co uon ovi- >-»! -nut ao bun ©f>.ta -lOii.ijsew 3 - ao .sir'i xlo ont to ©exoioo ,8 S«£fT, 6 fid • bsafo.&rtBcftj or. oe rf$xjQi ytev bosses itixpo $oa &d r l •jfao La 8 Ji saaaoed r ferial ai 'xsrttorm od §aia§ to .ob i •J ' , oiirf a.. .ass a iioau fix ^lo’v van ob od slaiaeo con* -basil ew os #^4 6 *tao5 to soa.id ei/ d&al .od ajuroao TPiaw * oi "radar.’ auii wst b des oi bnalel mtf^diorrA tot : .Air. bedtui&t »w U mu a if ie. I . 6 SOl/L. .olaoTd- ao da 5©.tfC«ie saw baa fa I mint d is a- jtiScJ MttsSt: < l noo8 ovarf e . daiid enld *ea£t erfd si >-fi to .Triple o.id firm ^lovoi o» ax ass oil .ebaefol io rj ox- oid <'rii to r ;e i "i ; -tcT old ban eseii d.rnaoooc ow? daotfa ases trie* entsT sot; i «a.rag*s e- i (<■ .ft: tii 3 I fuii 0 SD i ft dm S 9 :1 . 1 0 haul tto E!9ii .B896 Stas soiidf on i>caX end i#et .isiae d')':'' tot stfoifaa .•••o-., erii rtn-i bn- 10 m i • ■ . ,crox f r‘7 caw wx58 ew da rid nanr edirfw itXao ■-• ■ tssO .•io'ixft aXH cx iieacf ba/l sw tii Bid.; ^Esa fen« ftadna-' no' i 6 el lac de ;q cr* dx. rfd nixl iloi crmdnao joo its it a arid nj .bi-aod no eaoa 5a_i ew aaaaoecf - o- n -i*o ? o n dncf t 8biid -sot gai^oo! esxfexcf ortd ni d ne' looting. Right on flat land I saw a few small birds;- 50 Honey-eaters, White Eyes, Pan- tails. Shrike, Robins, Yellow-belly -- this bird has a white throat and black ring. I heard a few Doves calling, but never saw one near. I saw a large Hawk, Grey Hawk and Galinule , but I got very few of these birds. Mr. Willson gave me permission to collect a few birds, so next morning I went ashore but it rained almost all day. Then I went on Friday morning, the 11th, while the crew on board straightened up the things in the hull. I went up to the top of the mountains, but found no birds, only some on the flat land and very wild. Mr. Willson told me that there were some Pigeons on the island , but not many because the natives have been shooting them right along. There are not any regulations about game, so the natives kill the birds all year around. The main business of the island is timber and some copra. Oranges are plentiful and very sweet. Sugar cane grows thirty feet high but is not so sweet. Water-melon grows well too. Manioc is the main food of the natives. June 14. We left the island about three p.m. with a fair breeze. Ho birds were seen outside the island. June 15. At daybreak we were abreast the south end of Tanna Island. There was a light breeze all morning and no birds were seen during the morning. We sailed with only the foresail in double reef and staysail and Oil "'t.i'd' X 1 3X36 a V 3 a : hiiJaX da " no d ’ '. tH .'faiddai , r.i , ?xx-j;.L , si uid-tto'-' r v ’■ . , ;is? e on doxild 'aa daox;i'd ad.Mw . • tiari 5iid y i id ■ -- ^1. X «->d •' .'"io v»;is •s 9 van ducf . -sri :. i :' ao gotcS vol firiaari .$nri' . 3 i/d , sXuuitaQ fona jfwail ^6ir' ,SwbH sgml s was I .xaon en- ova nos: i'" .iM .sb’TXo' eaexid Ire wel \; s ev . •.? ; gaxHTOffl Jxen Od , &frxxd we* s d G •-. I noriT .'^ab lie dao/rla becuai di dacf aio is-j da */ cto weio erid slirfw , rfdll srfd , gaimcom •’abri^ no daew •a or l . Ili/ri 9rij nl e^aXcfd erid qx/ &ofi9drislB*rda biacd ,a6iid on fent/Qj dad , aniadcaocer arid Jo q od odd od '<*. « 08 XX XV. ,t.a . dXX 47 . ov cnu 6aaX dai*t arid no excuse T ^ r fc.,.:::, •'... . 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At one p.m. I saw one large shearwater with a black back and neck and white breast, but it went out of sight again very soon. Nothing more was seen during the day. June 16. Pila was in sight at daybreak and we made for the harbor and dropped anchor at 9.30 a.m. Pila Town, the capital of New Hebrides, is very small for such a good harbor. It is quiet like Suva harbor all surrounded by land covered with ever- green trees and coconut palm groves. i went ashore to see the town, but there are no roads, only simple trails and a few European houses and stores and not any strees. The group has two rulers and two flags, British and French. Two dogs at one bone. I went out to collect one day, but it rained very hard all day. I saw many small birds on the sides of the road. Ground doves are plentiful every- where and several Clementin doves called from the trees near the road. The white eye is the most common bird on the island. I saw a small cave with a lot of small bats. Efate Island, June 21. We left Port Vila in the morning and dropped anchor at Undine Bay at sunset. The view of the land was beautiful and the sea in the bay was like an oil lake. I O' - v oeii boo desd -is, a I'ljfW i -■ ijtrfee/.y *W l ' 1 ' ~SV r 1 :.V i. v ' ' ' 0 J 0 3 .1 9Vv ; 1 3-Utf . . . SO si' -1 •aai'T^b aaeo aaw entotn ^ntbiot ,6.1 omrV, „(n,« 0?,i* ta no dons £>-aqqon& bns -tOdusr: ©di- al , eobinded well Jo lisci iqso erfd , nwol alii erfii ,*slirp; el J. .nocTn*d Bqc§ 6 dooa toJ II, ere i/nri -'ia re ddiw 6 ei 6 vo© ‘ ba&i ^cf bebrnro una II-s locf^il I". Jnor j .uovoir rrisq ^'.''Q®oo 6ns eaoi J i.kc.- .•;• • : -o . ■•; ■•.>,. o ■■'-• • o el.".: v " -• -I ei ' a ->’ Xiori a f : ■' . ■ 1 • I edi , 2 ^fj owJ bm eieXiit o\?d &&& qrroi^ sdl ,aeei?8 T £tt>: . enotf ©no -in a§oB 'oWr .dose'di fins tfsiJ e C c o.i iei ts iisc f . vs 6 ,-ao Joe I loo o J Ji.ro tisv? I vtw no sfeilrf IXsiae $mar -sb I .Jgab I lx. biarf v # iot -vqovo i-:J riPi.r ext e -ob ScnoiC . 6soi eo-t Jo 9 {r -j odi . - vri- £^j. Iso s&vob aiScwaielO Xeiovoe ’ou ' --e. ;-,iic r [tor moo ison odd si s^e eJifiw so' .fisoi ©rii th-b:x Jo Jo I j iijjtw 0- i>: J I- ■ •• is Wiitl 1 .biislei O' C , aJsd I l.ol'0-' . 1 S seta :•• , bi.ai-B'I 0 J y rk beiqoib baa ynitnon? ed al sir ito? Jlef eV hnsf e J to neiv edO. .d&bdfifi Ja oci bn'T Jfi nosers Xio as sifXX esv q. d odd ni sse srft nils • Ji.Jji ec bxs- . vi'.. I Port Vila, lew Hebrides Is. 52 June 19, 1926. Dear Dr. Murphy: I am very much surprised that you did not send me any word about this Expedition! In your last letter to me about a year ago, you said that very soon you were going to inform me about the new plans in the future, but since then I have never heard a single word from you about the plans of the Expedition. Mr. Beck told me that he knows nothing more of your plans than I do, but I was told by somebody in Aukland, N. Z. , that this Expedition goes until 1932, that that was the report that came out in the annual Museum Report. I thought that I might expect to find- some letter from you, but all the same old story (nothing), so we don' t know what you intend doing in the future. We just came from the rough Dew Zealand sea and had bad weather all the way outside of the Tropics* I tell you that this schooner is not suitable for sailing outside of the Tropics. In the Tropics we go all right; warm weather, and in the case of a gale wind, we can get to one of the islands, but not down in the South. On our trip from Norfolk Island to here, we ran into the center of a very strong cyclone on June 2nd. Everybody in the ship thought that they were never going to see land again, but God did not forget us in the middle of the furious ocean. My wife became very frightened after that, and I, : \;riqxuM .T(I n/ioG bifc fso y, Jszrtj bsnl%q-tvfi rtoixnr xisv na I ■i - jo i kI JeroMxbdqpta eidd tnoda Stow \j,Ub an base tfoa •.;TeT darid bias rro'i , ops, *ra9\j & dtrotfa cm od neddeJ deal e ulcr v cn edi duo da ©m itrsolni od griio^- sno-v xro.'i raoci a E-naarf ievon ©van I cterf^ oonla t'isd , 2 >nod a* odd rti .ncidica act erf* *o aaro! ; a.- tf thd4a sr>\ mo** blow slants ^airfdoa swoxxtC erf dadd 9m Blod jfcaE .iM ^Bodsmoe Blod saw I dx/d" , o& I aarid enalq two^ ©non , S 5 CI Xxdmr s ->cg ae tti&S'pcS Bifid da J .T , .. ,B , Ban I kg A c i la ;nrtB arid nr dxro 9 mao da rid d*xc qon arid axsw da rid dand hi od fe@iX 9 td«i£ia I i&.ti id^.isodt T .JncHjefi w/epnG yni iiors) ^todc. &I : e.~n arid Ela dccf , sso non' ns^d-G v ■ •-■ .9Todn'- 9 rid ai raioij Saeda t iio . dariw ,voa< d 'nob ew DoeiasS 'C9il rf^/jon crid won’? ©nseo dexrfc oW • & ffTorr . ©i{; lo afciadflic ©fid I Is 19.W8OT Bad &U& at. $ailiae 10* eXdjsJxm: -to a ai naccodoa aid? da rid t/oc Jtled ; d .{« : .i Cla 03, a?, r©li* > •v-4 : -io aw . BaJt-w alfi^ a ±0 ajBJue add air fefiu f taritfaasr msw nadaso odd' odrxi fist o?. r f sneri od fcnalel dlo^noll won* qind arid ai v Sod^n^vB .6«3 aai'ri= ao eriof 0-40 ^nonds ^nov 8 ^0 ai8^e Boat ©&s od srtiog nevsa anew dadd' ?d^aor(tf qidc soo inift odd 'io -Ibbtsv odd ai ea do^ne’ don tib 60S I Boa , da rid ndtl . &8«©d riginl \.iuv ©nujoecf a%i'® too. She does not want to go on the schooner any more for far away trips. So I want to let yon know about my plans here on the ship. I had planned to leave the Expedition next month. That had been the understanding between me and Mr. Beck in Suva last year, because he did not want to send us home on a vacation trip. When we came to stay about three years more, he said that he might not be staying more than a year or so. My plans now are to stay just until next April or May, and then my wife and I are going home. The matter of our returning to the field is for you to decide, if the terms suit the Museum and us. But if the Museum does not need us after next May, your silence is enough of an answer. Our best wishes to you and your family. Yours faithfully, Jose G. Correia •-t.j.” ;.;a '.u- erf? uo of ol : seo'.-. •:■• • > — ' ' ?;.orf£ wo;x:l ao\ : I o,’ doa*? I o‘d .eqtei ^3iws re!- Oi& 9 vsel ad &»nnal S risd-^noX Qwf . 1K8B I iosiol arid &aMo,aoi ©lolsS fl*»j blrw a wbc I .snail Xiw wa'i « &ac aeci? end ai odd ac \;cW .dseio*! arid ai 6naoix> ^oiiebiinr woo 6rxc tciB 3 '•' o 1/ _■ sooid iris^n?!.! wo'"- & wjS'o I 3 a Dio': bixd a^ual s wc« t . di ^niJB© adoaxxpaiixiOi lo abai&non .n©ri a 88« di :)ri; /odd I 3a*ril - da bnc ©aid a ai .a ideal SbR 31 bnxro?: I is di hsio-lq I asriw dxxd . mvo ?• 31 dcxlf. Of , 5liO r Oliil ^TSV fi 3377 SXCH) lSf &i L&P 3 dXXCf OOri B dorr ©IddlX 3 b'.is ©'xoxn io'i ri oi73 98 o3 Tysv«j dxly.xi be>ti£ *s dasaoT on'd ai Baal *i a 3 ©ib qstxbX a .ano dcs I i©3ci -Bdaalq; ool’ioo bsaobaiid'B as to seaid 99 II 00 >0 CXnl nl ielnetf ooSrloo ritflw &01 ©too odi:/r si barms orii’ .no 3 bXc orCT .3 i sot o t :jo od ^&odea ecf o3 & : 199 a aiorid Bob f d -e' 9 vl'i dixod '3 caax dri-s i .arde a ; IXx ©ix ;■: »id ^ne v,'©3: 3 1 n id. duBXq said lo ©gB© ©rid 3c ’ : ■ ©rase rioirfw 9qxq 5as ia«via>. mho I 3 5aa cxlaad 3 a 0*100 . 3 ; ai 'ainaai eew isds* on #xid , ©*/o da is ^10 odd r.'oii There was also an old cleaning machine, bat all these things had not been used for a long time. The most common birds around were doves ( four different species live in this island). The pigeons are the same species that we found in Samoa and Tongoa, and in the Lau group in the Fiji Islands. The black pigeons are the same as those we found everywhere at Samoa, Tongoa and Fiji. The Clementin doves here are a different species from any of those at the other groups, and have a different call. I saw the ground doves under the orange trees eating the seeds of the rotten fruit. There are a few small birds in the forest. I was on the lookout for sooty flycatchers and thrushes, but did not see any today. June 23 I took the same place today. I was told to keep a good lookout for mallaus, thrushes, sooty fly- catchers. The birds that I saw today were the same as those of yesterday. I saw three mallaus, but a little far away. I collected one sooty flycatcher. I saw one thrush, but it flew away. Large green doves were in the highest trees in the forest, 30 some of them were spoiled when they hit the ground. I got two of them and three Olementin doves, three long- tail doves and a few other small birds. June 24 Tie went ashore a little late today because we had a few birds to skin in the morning. I got two I ; 0 oJ i . b&etti ; >ec 3 oj B-jen > .c . r snot neve a v'.sv b afvrlcJ no.-ivctoo Saoxir e.T„ eabo: - q :■ d"* .jf-BcusIef el It a '• e* l I ••; ' '••.3 t »?“ « . ;c ' ,i : ai Pa ;o/ s •• eel coo;, a:\yf-, X ■* *•...; ioBlcf OilT .c Bn® Is I It i'll exit li rpsor?. asi 9ii. a! 3'jj 3X9ir'- Bt jol ev n& ri3 a a ; i.'Hi/cj-t j out 3 7 T.cs I .II. so 1 ' ■n'i^xf? . -rr-.-i >ru« .or. i tgf>3 rii o bi M- .'law® wot a at® 01 oil'.'. . 3 b/il :o:Mc ' r ,a astsj-t. o3 Bio 3 Sii®- I ,^®6o3 coaly axnac or! 3 3foo3 9?5dfc &43 6 c ■:• •■■ 5 c : vase I 3,8x13 •: ,: i !:■ -&H 1 ' .fi oaoJ&o ; 3xrd , oj/bX tarn eeitir was I .^jsBiov b&v' to osocit • .. .T»i! 'jlar.' V.i. ^tOOS 9X20 Bo.lo&llot. 1 .<££’.7® tb' §13 a X l y&voB esai'i e^xaJ . wsl't 31 3xrc t xlaxr tdt on 0 .j3 to Qfflos os , : : 3910.3 exit si soot? ari? rji natv • BnfOlcg on 3 Jil \,8ii3 its b.o/to.q - •■';••• Lia3-gnoI ocs .3 .ustoB ailnomalC oo.satf &cus arod.0 . .sBiifct Ilaffif. S§ ofr.oI, 03 dtiil 813311 I .%(! ■•ftion sxi3 c 010 a® ; new s'l ai> r c o 3 8 bile' 09 *' a &B 0 v - 3 tea raallaus and one thrush. 1 saw two more thrushes. Tout they flew too fast. One mallau called, but I saw it fly away at a distance. i saw several old nests, but they were more common on the edges of the creeks. Once in a while I saw flying foxes on orange trees eating the fruit. June 25- July 1 I went to the same place for five days, but only on two days found four redbreasts , -two each day. Mallaus are very common birds on this island, so we found them everywhere. On July 1st we moved the ship to the east end of the bay in the morning. I went this morning over the ridge of the mountain, but the place is very bare, all full of grass and only a few big trees in the canyon. Very few small birds were seen about; on the ridge I heard a few pigeons and two mallaus. I found a hen's nest on a fern tree about thirty-five feet above the ground with two eggs in it; this is the first hen's nest that I have seen on a tree. I came back to the ship at evening, mostly empty handed. I wanted to shoot anything that came in sight, but I got practically nothing except two mallaus and six small birds, one pigeon. I saw two thrushes, but they were too fast. July 2 This morning I took the hill side and one creek On the hillside I saw only a few small birds, but in the creek I saw several sooty flycatchers and thrushes; I got one of the latter, and the others flew very fast , * s • . i ©to:; v • ; x .. .. . .*.. • .t v. ' r ,s.:. . ■ 'd ■ :-Ll;y O'J. . , ;S# 0 o ro ^ ... i . -q LI: [mere i .tvmiirf ai& a u -'O.; v.,I* . U '• 3 .... '. • oO - ti . I ;> I LfiV* JB '( .5i.r/~r: e;.; I "I«T»~3S ©sxr& .•Sat fi o e» o Wo , a« a jatrcfftat *r^o? biiixo'.: s%s,b crxl no \;Ino oo , ha -.}! v 1 fiirld: as ©Mil aorvtoe \;i 37 ©xt auni U '•: q tie oil 6* UQ . ■ r 1 i • J C r + l - ' 5 1 v :; • •' 0 ;u; ; rxo ’ ’ ai #©.5 - ."o b t;„ . ...... r :^ to I , oxad \j~ ev ex e. .j" ■siar acr.irf flame : v 9 i ^to .• .no^nao odd ax o©»*xd 3 id cftfo'ixj oiij at o'! ii r;a ?©oa 8’aexi s 'batfol I . wniinr . . babxio. v-Jgfiffo v;. ?3pm , 7 * Laavo 5a aixla odd 6« loac arnet . I .. er;.Oo j,b:j . ' :. L.J OC'riV, : . .-;.. . - • :• ; n, • . ; 0 • •: ,• croc .' :ui£ .,orc . I.. . ■$d$ xrcf .oo ..r it or; 5 -xss I .aoe^J-cr on ar.'r * : . 5 eal col o • -v . o©to ©ao oae o5is IIx.:. oil .loo i I -^axntom ©iiR fit ? • • , a &':r |rf v?a. « 'Si no I ox- fli. or. 5 . r? ■ %• 7 © : ' et&di O o.fv -t© , '£sls£sl ad; :.o oao ov- and were lost in the dense bushes. There too I saw 5 7 several sooty flycatchers, but did not have much of a chance at them. I shot four, but only found two. I heard many others call in the thick vines on the tall trees. I heard a few mallaus call, but I shot only two. Everywhere on this island I saw many abandoned plantations of all sorts, coconut, coffee, cotton. The coconuts grow up under the trees, and the cotton and coffee is over the ground. llguna Island, Hew Hebrides July 3, 1926 This island is only three miles north of Efate I. and has a few small villages on it. The highlands are grass covered, but the seaside has some very big forests and is all volcanic. When I landed I did the best I could to prevent the natives going with me, but in vain. Three of them followed me all morning and two more joined us about noon and never left me alone all the day. The forests are very dense all over and very few birds were in the trees. The first birds that I shot were a large light hawk that was resting up on a dead tree on a banana plantation, and one small cuckoo. The natives with me made such a noise that they scared all the birds away. 1 told them that I didn't like them to follow me because they drove away the birds, but they kept on going just the same. I heard some thrushes call and saw one, but it was too quick. 1 also heard a few thick heads, but got only one in the afternoon. The natives said that 1 - \ < V 3 v o nSJGTui doa bifc :• ji ■ oriotfso'.. L ! rdoou U,- »‘r > c I ,0t,’d £>, .-o' 4 - ^itxc dad , 1 ; •tor.f: I .xoorid .r & O C . ■' : 'lac i“lo.t?o fl’n '■?)■' a fnas.-i or ;j 6n , G3 ..iXicr sms 6na r el eirfd no a*0ri-w^Tev£ .c.'-.i aria . -ofttoc , sec’ 'a .dxmoooo .sd'xos 1 la ?o aai t hOi: TtQdd .;-d 9.\j' hiu- , a 6 :>?* arid is-irfir qrx/ v.; i> adi/ndco . .ifu/otj r>itS i-»vo si so' >o goo vxsa , 'SialcI ani/sri dS€I rirrb "ro rid i on I. Un ofirfd v iac gx Baglai :. hi 1 ! .1 ir <.''-r>ul Liv ■ Lb it., wel & Bad & 3 .1 odd..'- , . ., . lov ils ■ foe s j ■■:: ■" git ■, |frio*x aavidan aria ane’re'rq; od i dsatf arid 616 I c jv : fell' c . " .rod' 2 • . ' actio fc •' •. •• . Ovj r i gaiai o •‘2:'xo& Vi'&v orr* sdaeio^- Arif .v,«& orftf X fs a no la onr I !■■ -■- -• 'T ' '■ -. but; '.■ ' : .v,.id >:'/eri d-rigi : es--: =1 3 9 t»«r 3c : -i I darid effxlri JRtf!' .uoit^-tnol' aa&narf * so sat'd ca-3& 3 no qja raldC' ■ e*>t ; 3 rv- : on; ri.: it- .*■£ idari eri'* 'loirc 1 r & , . :%( I..-r.; 5Iotf • , aui ref arid XJui beta 0 3 v»rfd dfirid oa ion 3 •• ad • aa wood j 3 . Xo5: od inririd 3d-. IS d ‘aBifc I d-arid wo rid d \ • •: go dqf.e-r d./tf , Gbtic arid \;ew*j ovott d j Jirri ,«ero was Bna IIjbo aea -rreri? ono biaeri I .«f.tes J..J t sb*;3'i io.crid ws" 3 &xeo.i oela 1 . oxjrp ooi axi. there were plenty of mallaus all about the woods, hut gg I never heard nor saw one. Some wild fowl were about, and I shot one hen. The days are very short so we don't have much time in the afternoon for collecting. The most common birds here are parraqueets and white-eyes. A few Clementin and green doves call from the trees , and once in awhile a long tailed dove flies by. The ground doves are more common around orange trees. July 4 Creat day in the United States of America'. The 4th of July was spent quite lonely on the Schooner France, anchored near the iiguna I. This is the third 4th of July that we have spent in the South Sea Islands. Where will we spend the next? I expect in America, and hope so too. July 5 Mau Island We left Nguna I. in the morning and arrived at Mau about eight o'clock the same morning. We landed at Lagoon Village, and after Mr. Beck had permission from the Chief, we went off to collect. 1 did the best 1 could to avoid company, but in vain. The procession after me started with one and increased to nine by noon. These people here may be related to the Samoan people. I went up to the peak in the center of the island , going up one canyon, but it was very dense. I saw two gallin- ules fly from one side to the other, but a little far from me. At one big tree i saw several green doves, but I got only one and one young long- tailed dove. One man - ■ ' - • ■ c a*. 03 i t o :l \7ev stj 3 Q'4-i fc t$E .£S0ri eao Jor I bn.... t Z . q»X to*' - . .T'O-.' u'ieJtii * ai ©mi? f'oxrr: r .EiS" t 9-9 ; id. feati s?9©,;f>iii x&rj ©ix; sit'd ebi' a go; iol c'B.*a , eoetij otfj C!0_Xx I la© bqto& nejn bna ttUaeraoIC wol L Of® .^cf eailb a vo 6 6 9 1 xa s io I a ©I Adia a r ©cue £••..•• - ';i? c>u / 3 fen ova u MO; eauirt oijj oavoft . ;;rc £ 4 lift Xo aoia&t i on ; n <;sb ^*9T-: saJ . jo ^leaol ©Jfs.ro tt'riec • sex Pin, bro rfJ [> ©if!' ■. •Joaoxe I ; . 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The people are quite ugly in the South Sea Islands'. The houses where they live are very low and dark inside, and also very dirty, the people too. Most of the men speak English, more or less, but most of them don't like to work for small money. July 6 '.7e left Mau i. about four a.m. for Monument Rook and Matasso Islands, but the sea was a little rough so we oould not stop there. Around Monument Rook we saw a flock of boobies flying about and 1 saw two terns among them. The sea was rough when we came to Mai I. and we dropped anchor about noon. We went ashore to collect in the afternoon. 1 took the south- west end of the island, but that part is not very good for birds because I saw but very few. I collected only a few doves and parraqueets. The mosquitoes toward night wanted to eat us on the flat lands. The natives here did not follow mel Very good people. July 7 '7e went ashore in the morning, and I went to the same place as yesterday and over the flat land to the end, but I wa3 sorry I went there. I was trap- ped by the rose bushes and small Pandanos, and the place is mostly all swamp and full of mosquitoes which bite like dogs. I heard many pigeons call from the trees, but it was hard to see them among the thick ' - ■ liters! r Oil f £ . v;sr. u • r ' : ' ' - ' _ = - •' (' ' xr o' (jo’v ion '& a 01 soldo oil "0 itoo i * toi. or - # .,.,.3 ,... t r ^ ■ - .. >7. *ob Oil'I ’2 ' : sVie: -■>■ • ' - V,-, . - . r . •, . . • 0 " : or i .*■ .LU niewp o' OYl d- of jctr.. . bn* , garifiiOiTT oil . e' o; .- ■ icte’K . :-;’j so 1 " I fat e.sr '•• g j» 1< : v;asn: ,j *> ' 1 -. a:.s -..ffor s- 0. ;i ses 02 oir.ri 0 r-r,' :: 1 : foliage. I heard a few sooty flycatchers, tut saw only fit two which I collected. I tramped for a few hours in the dense bushes of the swamp before I could find my way out of them. I heard a few thrushes, but did not see any. A little shower came in the afternoon and it rained all afternoon. The mosquitoes were so thick around me that I ran as fast as possible from the forest, but they followed me everywhere I went. July 8 There was a light rain all day long so nobody went ashore today. Holiday. July 9 Today I was on the lookout for small parraqueets and blue finches. Hicks and I went together in the morning to the big tree where he saw some blue finches yesterday. Cn the road we saw small parraqueets around the coconut trees. Hicks shot one and another went away. At the big tree where the finches were, we got three in the morning and one hummingbird. Only a few warblers were up on the tree so we decided to go over to the coconut trees to look for small parraqueets. Hicks had better luck than I; he struck five, while I was only two fly over the coconut trees in the afternoon, but got none. July 10 Today I was all day on the lookout for small parraqueets among the coconut groves, but none -were seen. The redbreasted robin at this island lives on the flat jtf . ' I | I ■ '1 V.! 70‘ ; ' OO'iTUjl ■. . '' ‘ 3 • 30 '■ ' t '' v • bt&l* LI so o £ oio- Sk; ccnsm, ®rf* *0 sodeic omea 0. -:t toa 515 ivd .sarfenrii rol a b-tearf J .rnoi*o ;:o iu.© vj»'. ?1 5 raj ao ono: s i'lo orfjf" 1 1 oflkao isvorfa 9 i“J /. - & ♦ ® ! ‘ • : oa ao.Bn eoctf i xrpaoxt axil .nooarc©?!^ ' J« 5 c-a - m:*: j e o ' o*r inoil ©Idlaaoof bs IssL bs £ssi - & : '- J . 0 rr :•• T 8 'v;I>.;L •/ ft 0 do el oa 7-;xo!' :,ab LI* nt&'s s- a*« 010 . vijoilcH . i*af o 3 orEOdSi- ■! ier $ ^jCjt o 8do*fftwnuB <> &>'*?■ Qi&dmi^ effld r - aso’S wsis o.iv ■< ' ■'-' : iiVi I "fr&S 9V( £)Ji01 Sill nO « .< ' tc.evr "* 4iS$ oais >no *10 darfo ;>!oi .• . Be si 3 iirnoodo od- v & - .y JfiO , Li l Jraxorir eao 0:3 ga imron? oiid ai oai .0 ...JOv . J31': o.. il-OHS mi <00 1 C,‘ 8 l ; 1 * t £1000 0 wtf Oj £ odidw . 37 ix lodida erf ; Oiiid HoitX re^tod bad adeix i -•" : o.;.j r: ■ 3693d J . 0.000 6Ci* 1370 \jll O'.V.t ^IGO S< ’ . eaou Jo^ sad Cl [ I .$ ,;:3 70 1 3 003X00 ; Qlii CIO '{J II/ a«v; i ’£0 r >Ol , 9s ... - o oa diid ,bp ois rmooro Ic * none adoei-^'- 5$ ' 62 ground in the thick hushes. The ground doves are the commonest among the doves at this group. I have never yet seen any hawks at this island. July 12 My luck today has been very had I I was looking for humming birds and red-headed finches. Of the latter I saw none, and of the former I saw three, but got none. Hard luck is against me for a long time about finding rare birds, and especially in this group of islands, but I hope that it may change sometime before I leave the field. July 13 ’.7e left Mai Island early in the morning and started for Monument Rock, trying to get some sea birds, but the captain found out that the -^©ad- was out aways and he could not steer; so we came to Undine Bay in smooth water to investigate the trouble and found out / ^ 4 't / <\h that the , post was split and we would have to go to Vila for repairs. 'Ve set out again for Vila nest day, and arrived there on the morning of the 15th. July 15 I was sent out by Mr. Beck about ten o'clock to collect and keep a lookout for yellow-bellies and any other rare birds. I got only one yellow-belly and a few other birds, and a lot of bats in one cave. July 16 Today I ran into a large species of land fox of the forest, and I got only two yellow-bellies and • ;• • Ki ev a O':;- u&vo 5 e :i • .‘.rc. • . /bocifef toc , hK&Xb i bMJ 'if* 83f7^ -f %aa a«‘'s>« i e\ SI 077*1 erS7 :i > . ifl. it bebB -i Set baa abaic ••^Icwa/ii tot on on ?C 7 ?:-J ,c ■ n.’ tat I aeratot &iL4 to baa .anon wua 1 ■gaibait dirocfa ©nfJ srtol a "Ot am tfscixa^c eJt tfoal b:.c : 9 . i ev fiol I e tot so emWenroe e&uatfb' \;bm 7 £ £&d$ egorf I ^ xicf .biof-'v ( : : i '1 %£sr T, !'f .- -■ S; . : T-> i ; ■■■.& ■ , I,..*- 7”' : ' r f ' v b"’ id to o. a,: fate ,,« r ooE Jaoe&wt.cII tot 6o.7t.vit s s-ysw.'. Suo saw xjct- artt i&tti 7ao &ox*ot aifltfgaQ o.rf7 7acf r; r ;,|g ->£j 1 v.'tU 0-7 ea± 0 07/ 08 ; 19 97 6 toil blfrO; 9fi 3 0 .. .-. ,' v :■/ 3 tst ero. 95s:itC3'i r i i 37 • c.aw .7:' nt. o-7 o> o:i avarf b(j >* s" 6ga 7ilq;a aaw iiiog^o tm'3 - i0Oi:;'o 03.7 ittforfa aCoII ,tli ’:cf 7;/c 7 cj 9G cav. I • •-.'■• 1 i ' 3cf~\ Lf .■■■;; tot 7 ■■■■.'fiool & &u.c JoeiiOO o** £ no ■- ■ ' o- 3- i ; .'a-:. 9 no r:i a7ad to 7oi a 5 os , e otic; lariito w? a I xo": & .si to 8o;c9ru a o7ui nat I ^aboT two cuckoos. I saw many other common birds at differ- ent places, and heard some sooty flycatchers, but saw none. Efate Island, July 21. Back again at Undine Bay! I was sent out to search for red-headed finches. I went up to the place we knew of in the forest to try my luck, because those birds were very rare. the first time we called at this place, so I did not bother 'with any other birds on my way up. On my arrival at the tree we knew of, 1 saw two red-headed finches; I shot one and after waiting a little while a few more came. Then they came one by one, and in about an hour I had twelve; for about an hour not one was seen, but later they came back again and I got six more , making eighteen in a few hours. July 22 Monument Bock and Mattaso Is. I did not go ashore at these places so I can't say anything about them. July 23 Makura Is. I went ashore in the morning. Very few birds live here. At the top of the island I only saw two kingfishers which I collected. On the sides I collect- ed a few small birds and one black pigeon and a few Clementin doves. Very few honeyeaters were seen at the flowering trees. 'io ; ■ •.' J . ' . .Oi -C ,) -.9 . ... 0 - ' .0 if o r.'aft i Jd 8le • . ; . - A c \ . o* .•;: I O'.'o . S aJn & non r ' , (male I "!•: ij'tL o* « l'C laes a« . C'fli'b'iTT is nlajaa sfc-sfe ©oalcr ed? oi -rtf ? rtow f .©©rfoi'.x'i &■• fixserf-Oo'f zof, rfo'iaee oaodl w;,s.o 0 tf .dstfl II-'* o ‘ tfsoiol uttf u.f lo wocnf aw i& b&LLao m v . •loo/ of, I 89 6 1?; f.&jt ffO .£> -t'oor Joe iioltfw ofrQrte I "■of ;•. o!'t,o ao©?2-> 2;oaIa' oao u as tsdilef I lame we'f a £>“ •l.u • • a ©7;«r eto"...o rf » o'; i© . e ovoft nil a--. ;o . aeeil gafiowol' sdi July 24 Tongariki Is. At this island we saw sixteen species of birds, but very few of each kind. The forests are dense and low. At the top of the mountain it is all plum grass and very few small trees. At some creeks we saw once in a while a small bird, but it was very hard to shoot because of the thick bushes. We had a hard day's work for nothing. July 26 Tongoa Is. We arrived here yesterday morning and started work this morning. The bushes are very dense all over the island and very few birds are still here, only the common ones. The island was swept by a hurricane three years ago and it killed a lot of birds, so our collecting was small. July 27 It was a very fine morning when we came ashore, but the weather changed very soon. It began to rain about nine a.m. and kept on all day. 1 decided to go after malau eggs. The natives took us to the place where they nest at an embankment on the east side of the island near the beach, and we found twelve eggs, four at one hole and the others one at each place. 7/hen we came back we were all wet and we learned from the natives that the ship had to clear out from the island and get shelter at Api Island , so we called at Mr. Michelsen ' s house and stayed there until Friday (30) morning, when the ship came back to us again. . .cl t'U-iz’g: o r : -iui .KfeTi'i c^ioisa «o ev ha.aXsl sidX Si- la® esc © u one a^sano" 0 iiT . f.-riM does 1 o wel ^197 , 3 j.'o 1 i j c: i> . ‘ i !■: ■-'< ■■ * s ; , ,v SOUQ ’.76 S ©.? OSIO 0/;rO8 90 ." 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Ioj&oJ sn - : XSOfl BflaXal &.'■" .QO&lq dOii o Jd seo en. erfXo ed: Bn# ©Xo.f srto 3a nr'd «w Bits 3sv.- IXa ensw ow aloed eras© -&w. jEterir: gd3 .■ 1* Sac -rasXo o3 b*. qirfe 9 rid 3ex£# soviXen ed :ji, bsHeo ©V 08 . naalfcl i f.- nedlerls ds^ 5 ce baeloi .a. 3349 3*i or jior-d or-eo qiio srfX ao. v .galaToar .C’- July 30 I went to the east southeast side of the island today and struck some red-headed blue finches. I found them on the small trees which have fruit like figs. The birds pick up the fuit and go to another tree and eat it. They never stop long on the tree where they get the fruit, but on the others near by. Cn the road I got two longtailed doves and two green doves. July 31 I went to the same place as yesterday for blue finches . Yesterday I got nine, but today I got only five until about noon and then the wind started to blow and change to south so I went to the ship as soon as possible in the case of its having to put out to sea, as we did not want to be left behind again. But the wind dropped again in the afternoon and we waited there until Monday morning and left Tongoa at daybreak for Api Island. Aug. E Api Island We left Tongoa I. at daybreak and arrived at Api I. in the afternoon. .7e went ashore, but it was very late, so I came back in the dark with empty hands. The fields there are very bad. Cn the plain land the ground is almost covered with weeds and vines and some very dense plum grass. On the hills there are many big trees, but the ground is all weeds and at some places they are very high and dense. The top of the trees is almost covered with vines, making it quite impossible to see the birds above. We spent a week ; ; 'tr to ebiB fa iriftfoe erf c? ot 1 new 1 feai/O^ I .eoriti r\ orrlJ JcabBerf-bei ernes -Aouitz bus vjs '. otf .as " *01 3 JtsrxJ evarf rfoirft : laris o'ffct no tax? asiif i-v-' oo3'c^ o* -bra. diirt edtf-' qJ '^otq a bijfd oil' ' fj.se t ® •!•+ orO .^rf T»oa a'xerfi'o exii no tfnrf .dhrVi suit .a-evob cieeis oir.t brie aev.ob 5oI xavsnol or:? toy, I I?. ^Xf/T, orrld lot t.c\. aa 9oalq ©suae arid’ oJ I "Xnb '$ Of. 1 jar ■■ txi , an ' r .: io\ 1 %abx#^8eY . a on on o? be? 7 rtf a bahr ©rut norftf 6 cjs noon dnoc&s Xi?a- eri?: o i iuo f.sjq 05 gniVarf s5x !o oaae e>:15 au t- : rfit-.3oq • : ■ bs . ei . : a , :ifn * *■ siti'lBitr , eorr.bv rf5xw bexovoo ffeosiJU ui 1 . '96;. ... ‘ :> s rrf , :>v ,'b :icf Slid ooe c J side; ■ : 66 here, but our collection was not very good because part of the birds were lost among the weeds. I found an old thrush's nest, but no other kinds of nests were seen around. The people here live very miserably; their houses look more suitable for pigs than for people. The soil is very fertile and everything grows well, but it is almost all full of weeds and bushes. A few patches of cotton grow very fine, but the people are too lazy to take care of it. Indian corn grows well here and tastes very good. We left Api I. on August 9 in the morning for Lopevi I. and arrived there about one p.m. Lopevi Island, New Hebrides August 9, 1926. This island is 4755 feet high. The lower part is covered with big trees, the middle part is full of small bushes and the upper is bare lava. Most of the birds live in the lower part among the high trees, many of which are Ironwood trees. At first sight the island seems birdless, but we found quite a good number of different species. The common yellow-eye in fiji, Samoa, and Tonga Is. we found here for the first time in the New Hebrides, but a different species, a little large and brown in color. The thrushes came right in the houses to eat. I saw two malau eggs which the natives showed me, but I never saw the birds. I saw a large flock of small green finches among the cotton fields. Almost every native mail has a gun for killing pigeons, so there were very few seen, le spent two days here and left this island on the 11th in the afternoon and orn > : I . b r '* j»oI o'ssw >t.3 0 o •7’xxj' •v: ■. .■• ■' ■ b. •> • ' o or 3. ,rs#n 6fo ; v • ov 1 ©Tori stjfp* « «nt . fem?OT*s aeoe ■ /■■ ..,.!> . ■ '■ ’i ■ I ... : . " aioct o * i J 8wc j* ?&Jt;{l3x'f;c%& tno e ttXfT- ’iiev sx fxce oxfi . eiqa.oq; .{•oris cf f/cu* B|r*evf 'io IJU Juorrrla si ?i Jxxd ., lie- • J , an 1" '{*£ov wwo'/=, >r '00 ettibu I . 1 x ?o erteo siriad ori vsal oo« oTa ■; ;?jiJ£r|y HO . I X /, 3'i&I OY. ,&0©£ VX8V OO.'GfiJ b«B ©lad toada o’xwiti bQvi': u 5 ftrua .1 fvwjjoJ to 1 gaiaic :: e. 3 ni ,m. cr eri . .: 9 1 •" •••••;: , h rials I rvaqc;: .a tie; , t ■ ■ . ' J .o ... -;' J ei Sx.e.q ©IM -43 . aroiri -.• id [3 iw bs*.. ;r/os H.c -• ; .r , • x J rv t at / i 3ia x.ETio i oiii ni o* IL of riaxilei c 1 .t 3^;'- j _■ . 3©-3i4 ioowho'i I ©aa . Oi-lv ^0 lo ■todmo boog -. ox? >yp a& owd iae'Xa s .oeoa wo?- ^iev eisw 3*xori3 oe btii. ao trio. ' s orf: ni riril.i ori3 ac baalai sxri3 31: ol baa arrived at Pauuma I. in the evening. 67 Pauuma Island, Aug. 12 This island is very small and is very hilly and wooded all over with many dry creeks. The forests are very dense and quite covered with vines and weeds. The most common birds here are doves. le heard them call all over the island, hut it was very hard to see one. I found red-headed finches very common, hut it is hard to find the trees where they feed; hut at those trees I saw a very large flock of them on the evening of the day before we left the island, so it was too late to take a large number of them. Amb rym Island, Aug . 14 We arrived at this island about ten a.m. and went ashore, but the day was very hot and the ground dusty and we had no time to go far in the forests and our collection was small and of common birds. At last we have met the cannibals of the New. Hebrides! They are the worst looking people that I ever saw in my life. Those people are not cannibals now, but except for killing people and eating them they have the same habits as they had in cannibal days. Aug. 16 I went over the north side of the island. The place is mostly volcanic with new bushes all over it. Very few birds were seen and very wild, but at one place I met a number of black thrushes among the dense bushes and collected three of them. There are some evi'j -i& .ovo artt-nx .1 .aimmaf :U , 6aeJ >:I b/'Wfv'I fcn. y.iltd /: av ;.i do© £|fca^ ^ 10 ' el f : .. . : «MT 9%* soeetirt o. 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They looked more like devils than men. If I had not met two of them on the beach before and heard from the other people that they were all tame, I might have thought it was my last moment of life! As I knew about them, instead of running away from them, I went directly to them and shook hands with them all. All those people have dirt enough on their bodies to plant banana trees and tarro too without touching their skin. My collec- tion today was not good. At one place I saw a few thrushes which I shot ( three) , but the bush was very dense and new. There is no fresh water anywhere on the island; for drinking the people use coconuts and some rain water. We stopped for the night and sailed next morning. Malekula Island, Aug. 17 At last we arrived in the heart of the cannibals' islandsl Many people told us at Port Villa ’’Don't land at Malekula because they still eat human flesh there, and if you go in the bush you will never come back again. The most dangerous cannibals at this island were the white traders and planters. Those white cannibals have killed more native people under their cruelty to make them work for nothing than the native people have killed the white. 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' : 0 ^ , biiule : .0:'x.u'. f alii nor;* * . n : r r-;- & 9W eao SI .1 is tsow. ©fti x«oa o i 8.- ii.-xno ' uo j 1 . - , 3 v si oo 0 i il s'j«o&ci noi^oel/co o .n 3a 70 and so many people live there, but at another small island while Mr. Beck went to the mainland, I went around the small island , but only a few common birds were seen there. At this part of Malekula there are still cannibals. The people of the small island have planta- tions on the mainland, but when they go there they always go in a large party and all armed with guns in case they should meet any bushmen. We were told by some native men that the bushmen were very seldom seen near the sea and that they never try to cross the sea because they are afraid of drowning and they couldn' t swim, so the others feel safe on the small islands. We have seen at the New Hebrides that on every island the people are a different race from one place to another, and have dif- ferent habits of life. At some places we saw hundreds of pig jaws which had two big tusk teeth. The pigs are killed for some celebrations or ceremonies of the native habirs, and after the ceremony the jaw of each pig is placed on a rack and let there forever. If anybody takes a jaw from that rick it is considered sacrilege among the others and might result in the death of the guilty man. When we left Malekula I. we came to a small island quite close to Sspiritu Santo Island. Malo Island, Aug. 27. ‘,7e arrived here this morning and went ashore aboiit nine a.m. The island is lower; the highest peak is about 1000 feet and the remainder is quite plain. The fields for collecting are fine; almost all open bushes and clear forests, but not many species of birds • • ar.:''- 'forftoco . cf . 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Jtrd f or e I'^&b 0v7i oasis! nail' -• j o &&t> o wo I 63 Hsp vi ba&S srfx «^£ho$ ooc'joc aaiXJoa &e3©»XXpo ••.<»*' • r - o9fl'oJi;f( t e'<- ,: . , :'i - ; Xoew i •> i 1 to . ■": 1. isi.v di: *8 bos;, agi . hnx a on if fttlw &f.*refoo fteoirLa -r: rd .< ; .j i d-tr. ro 17 -.ail’.* .:•! i* c i ow? ♦'tow was 1 ai ic . . oh. fan ; . o.j-J sails, to li 3 or t eenl -A? s7 ni nr o Xiea efusoxf-^oidi we’S a feiaad 1 ■ _ • ■ . IeO', 17 ’gfooE .! ^iianolaseooo 6rus aoon; ■. ref ao'3 ai i-~ .1 fo . orroo w, .. ■ 3 2 0 o' 7o ;(o3.o lOfft'OTi.© 3 A ,f ileal anal lort^olc ex 3 na . ••o‘: \;a&v 3acf ,ewoat> turn aty.isovAv t if giB-j on ? r/tf ,cov-i ->3 hiw l*fi* 3o\;c> woilc’S, no7 .c, - Aug. 31 72 I took the other field today, but nothing new was seen. I found a small nest with two eggs in it. They were very dark brown with darker spots. The nest seems quite like that of the sooty flycatcher, but the eggs are darker than those we have found in Fiji Islands. The birds that I saw around the nest were sooty fly- catchers, but they never went on the nest. I took it with me because it was raining badly and if I left it there until the next day, I might never have found it again. Sept. 1, 1926. I went out only for half a day. I found a good field of open forest, but the same birds that I had seen before, and very few in number. Thick-heads are common- est and next is the yellow-belly. I saw a few doves' nests on the rock cave five feet from the ground. Very few doves live at this part of the island compared to other islands of this group, and no warblers were seen around . 3ept. 2 77e left the canal and came to the west end of the island, stopping at the II. W. side. The fields are quite flat and densely forested, nothing new was found at this end either, and after a few days we pushed farther north to the end and called at a small island named Dauphin, which has two fresh water lakes. 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J|dd • ■-. i ..: : - ■ f i&mo a in Bel .us - ' no ftfte ar ; ddiou ■ On the first day I got four, but I had to swim in the lake for the last two I shot, next day we carried the small boat over the bushes and Mr. Beck went into the middle and shot some. Hicks and I shot a few on the sides. Dauphin Island, Sept. 2-12 On the 7th in the afternoon we left Dauphin Island and sailed for the Banks group, but we had rough weather and quite a head wind so we arrived at a small island (I don’t know its name yet) in the afternoon, and Hicks and I went ashore. Hicks brought in six small birds, but I went over bad field all full of grass. I saw a few birds, but had no chance to collect any except one shrike, but the shots cut his bill quite off and broke the skull. The wind started to increase, so we had to clear off from land about nine o'clock. Uext morning we were about ten miles to the lee side and it was still very rough and got worse up to noon, so we decided to look for shelter until the weather changed. At about four p.m. we dropped anchor on the lee side of Gaua or Santa Maria Island. The island is very densely wooded all over the weather side and at many places on the lee side too. The villages at this island are right in the center or up on the hills. I did not see any coconut plantations here. The natives are very friendly and most all the men speak English. *.7e are still waiting for good weather. Gaua Island, Sept. 10 The weather was very wet in the morning, but ft II uf l o ; bj :: : r . . 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' oerre a- vatv >fif .A. j.aefl . o. srroa b ;i* ass- gw atfv.ar? os • , wo a sdiajiio of sen bnli Tahtoae 0 ? Kit: v.... Cjeeo 3 96 ' v ■ ' ' ..r lf T: 0*5 y& eaO • - ; a ;'"i\ ^r> ■ be to: ? 6 ' birds about three or four days old; one had two fresh eggs, and another had the birds on the nest. Hear the same place I shot a kingfisher, the only one we got at this side of the island. The weather was very bad every day; heavy showers came right along, so it made it hard to collect. Some of the birds are quite different from those of the Banks and Hew Hebrides Islands, except the red-capped doves and Pacific pigeons. Three species of small birds and some thick-heads kept going together in the thick bushes, but not many in number, and for a few miles we did not see a bird anywhere. He spent four days at this bay and then moved to the north side of the same island where the people said there were plenty of croco- diles, because here we never saw one. Vanikoro Island, 3ept. 24 At this side of the island ( north) we expected to meet with some alligators or crocodiles, but there were none in sight, and there were no signs of them. 77e found the birds here about the same as on the other bay. He spent two days here and left on Sunday morning for Utupua Island, arriving there at sunset. While sailing among the Banks and Santa Cruz Islands we met several shearwaters of about four or five different kinds, and I saw one black, small petrel. Some tropic birds passed us, but kept right on going. A few curlews and plovers and tatlers r/ere collected by Mr. Beck at the north side of Vanikoro Island. ,'.S -.•■■'t s . ' . 'i s-'/. blo C .> • ‘OS.0 O 0©'£ * I t T Od 0 09 id , 5, ;•••;• 0 . B ■ IC ' ; , 10 ,ci i toiT-hf © : o/e ! oosiq; e vii©v ljjcs-v 'td;'W'o5 ora . ftuxs/o/ ©$i fsb dfc-ce ci.fr.; -;5b£J J :S , . / I© d- i\ t:. .. ’0 e vraid ; •>/, . o - - i -i . t e-&: , sa./i/'ueK well is orfitflS ®tu k ^ • oc : 2 ’ o /oiasgo «©v:.’ , 8 «o ;a.iq of 'la©-" r»aa covoB bogqoe-fen'i jl ■ j ; v.nxos iqa3f .vf)* 2 >a:i rstoiifd eraoa &fi& ooiitf 1 1 © as •• . 0 / : m f iBiilscx rii v,t/n doa , 8 &ristfY , ' rot •'. . O'. on /: ©v/o; eiic Ibo d on ©r a b a© I o d de.t oe : loc 5 T 8 - ©- 9 P?fid &fl£ aru vo I on... 3 >.-' . d;/.s: 3 l c-v/ to a bis d" . .; o /* 'a o &(■ .■ Utupua Island, Sept. 27 Ve arrived here yesterday evening and had a good 77 restful night. This morning was beautiful and we went ashore to collect. I went in a canoe with a native who landed me at the mangrove beach inside the Lagoon Bay. The first bird I met was a red-capped dove. Then I saw one fantail, but missed it. Very few birds live at this island; of small birds I saw only about four or five species. The fine weather lasted only a short time; a heavy shower came up about ten o'clock and it continued to rain all afternoon, so my collection was very small. The natives here told us that there are some small alligators in this bay, but at the end of it in the creek. Sept. 28-30 I went over to the north end where I saw a large mangrove swamp and a flat valley. The mangrove goes further inland and then the bush land plain begins and goes very far in. Here I looked for the white-breasted ground dove. I saw several ground doves fly in the distance, but could not make out what they were. 1 got three common ones and a few other birds. On the reefs I saw several curlews, plovers, tatlers and white-bellied sandpipers; among these birds I collected a few and two sandpipers. At this island we only found thrushes at two flat places near the beach. On the first day 7 I got seven in about thirty; minutes in the afternoon. The number of species of land birds here is very small. !7e left here and sailed for the Duff Group where we arrived on Saturday morning, Oct. 2. VS . tnel httkI -%1 isxrqtfrf'F i< ■ ' « \m& rmineva ^sfitoo-as^ ©varf bsviitr. o? :;rra?; ■> : fine iir* n ■ ^rfiFrirf-a at- .rirfsifi I evilisei 3 .■.i.cr; eonao c nl riaov '!• .riooilas o# ett-ort.eu* ho; •' o. ■ Oil- ,ov ,& bogqas -&01 © ©tw riajn j btid fail* aril . ^tS ov:I sbiie wVt TtoV . >Ti Saoeim -t ;ri ,Ix.c 3 va’ ano wiie I ' * :CGi 3 rjl no X. abiia Xi608 %p . oriJ Si - t'Ai tji • B'mit irorin a ^Ino bales! tadriaaw art If' ?ri 7 .ooiooqx ovu fcsxi; ctaoo ' r -6 lies rioolo'o aet Jaoo* qa ©nao 10 rode v?v^ori 3 . lame -{tor e&x; aoitoeCIoo r ;m ob .sooatolfs I fe u si - t ■ 00 to -oa- ux i • "'0 i; • i * .*, a , vqstf t.iil* ;si •/■ OS-fsS ♦ iqeS ' ~ \sl .. ?.4 •. I etoriw one ri ri-.ro a sri -1 0? 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Pacific pigeons, red- capped doves and a kingfisher were about the only land birds we got today. Oct. 4 '.7e went ashore again today and looked for ground doves and a few others; there were very few birds on the island. I saw one gallinule on the taro patches, but I missed it. Oct. 5 This morning we lifted anchor and went around to the small inlets with the hope of finding some sea birds, but nothing came in sight except a few boobies flying far away in the distance, so we came to another large island of the same group and dropped anchor there about noon; we collected in the afternoon. At this island we found very few birds, only four or five species. In the evening we sailed out again for ileef Islands . Heef Islands, Oct. 6-10 This group of islands is flat and of lime formation, and a great part of the land is covered with jj- fi'.V: e i" .(?:.» :.t i :©#& ty:.OCim& ■ rcrr: ;7 oil" ioi'i’v* or ;om o r.ro £.l 05 .<>1 ^ b.ow m ossbolew ■ ' ' . . ! ■-.! i ’ , . 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Santa Cruz Island , Cot. 16 A small collection was made at this island at 81 this time. 1 landed at the south side of Gracioza Bay. The land goes flat for awhile and then goes up a little. Bed-capped doves called everywhere. A few ground doves were seen and collected. Long- tailed doves and Pacific pireons were very common too. I saw yellow-eyes near the beach on the flat land, but not many on high land. The small fantails here are different from those of ■ Vanikoro I., and one new species of small bird was found on this island; it is the size and quite the same color of the white-eye, but lives in thick forests in pairs. Very few were seen and only four collected. I found one nest of the ground dove with two baby birds in it, and also a wild hen's nest on the ground with five eggs in it. I broke one and found a chicken about half way advanced in incubation, so I left the other four there. Several swallows flew over the road and along the beach. Plenty of wild fowl were seen in the bushes and roosters called everywhere. At this part of the island there are no signs of wild pigs, maybe there are some over on the other side, and maybe some different birds too, but I have not gone over there yet. 6 i .toe . fttsaXai so%'C . &i. .. s boa i ■: ! . s hit ?a ©Ba - saw noi-ioe.XIoo XXsns A . ay ::•■.. r © ' e ohlB dtisc a or:' t£ boBoaX i .sM-i o ; a coy? ctei# B:^s . i - ool talx ao&: bo.> 1 oxib von f ;xjo ^ - ol ; , 0 'cg. ■■■.>•’£*£ ' r © bsi Ix;o sovob b*;fq,e$ ■■.. ofiiosl beta e-evob Be: iau -%«oJ vbetosilos baa aefra arcev •ij39.: so r ol ox; .vac . .00 i aeaifno 0 -/a ?r: 01 or sao vr rq , f. , s i i’c./xi no ^xrsm t-oa ct j.rd , [i.sj. vf^fi erftf no i/oasd 6 ,k [} . . fe-iiirf IIBA1B- $0 KOXOOqC #9lj 6 B , . £«'« •' . ■ a- • ririt rii aovXI txrcf , a-;.o-ei ixiv. sa$- *3 loloo : .bsto&ilEps *x ;xo 1 -.;Ino has aoea > , xa. v.oh r?o.\ ymUfc ab-iiii v.tfc . . ' .; ii-o ctn: ■:> . osoi" "a ove boil-so saota.ooa baa c s 0 9; oa yb has , ei. :•& 'lo.ito out ac xr •/& vmos &u r. x OfOnt HV'C OflOj- tOC OWiU I tllcf , OOt 3 M I Ci ti u / :A list of Birds of Hew Hebrides Islands 82 taken by the Whitney Expedition. J. G. C. Efate Island Land Birds 1 . Hawk 19. Warbler 2. Gallimile 20. White -eye (Gold) 3. Mai an 21. Red Honeysucker 4. Pigeon (Pacific) 22. Blue-head Finch 5. Black Pigeon 23. Swallow 6. Green Dove 24. Gray Swift 7. Ground Dove 25. Wild Fowl 8. He d- cap Dove 26. Wood Swallow ,9. Long- tail Dove 27. Hail (Viar) 10. Parakeet large) 28. Bat 11. Thrush 29. Fly-fox 12. Sooty Flycatcher 30. Owl 13. Kingfisher 31. Fan-tail (small) 14. Shrike 32. White -eye (gray) 15. Thick- he ad 33. White Swift 16. Yellow-belly 34. Red-cap Finch 17. Fan-tail (large) 35. Red-breast Robin 18. Broadbill 36. Duck Uguna Island Land Birds 1. Pigeon (Pacific) 15. Hawk 2. Malau 16. Gray Hawk 3. Black Pigeon 17. Red Honey Eater 4. Green Dove 18. White-eye (gold) 5. Long- tail Dove 19. 7/hite-eye (gray) 6. Ground Dove 20. Broadbill 7. Kingfisher 21. White Swift 8. Thick- he ad 22. Thrush 9. Cuckoo 23. Wild Fowl 10. 7/o od Swallow 24. Fly-fox 11. Shrike 25. Bat 12. 7/arbler 26. Owl 13. Red-cap Dove 14. Fan-tail 27. Parrot (small) Sea Birds Curlew, Heron, Yellow-bill Tern. Mau Island Land Birds 1. Malau 10. Warbler 2. Callinule 11. White-eye (gray) 3. Green Dove 12. White-eye (golden 4. Ground Dove 13. Red Honey Eater 5. Red -can Dove 14. Black Pigeon 6. Long- tail Dove 15. 'Wo od Swallow 7. Cuckoo (Tahiti) 16. Cuckoo (small) 8. Kingfisher 9. Parrot 17. Broadbill Mai Island 83 Land Birds 1. Pigeon (Pacific) 15 2. Black Pigeon 16 3. Green Dove 17 4. Malau 18 5. Long- tail Dove 19 6. Ground Dove 20 7. Red-cap Dove 21 8 . Thrush 22 9. Kingfisher 23 10. Sooty Flycatcher 24 11. Parrot 25 12. Paraqueet 26 13. Warbler 27 14. Red-cap Pinch Monument Rook Hummingbird White-eye (golden) White- eye (gray) Redbreast Red Honey Eater Swift (gray) Swift (white) Broadbi 11 Pan- tail (large) Pan- tail (small) Shrike Thick- he ad Cuckoo Plotus Booby, Red-footed Booby Matasso Island 'Wood Swallow, Broadbi 11, Red Honey Eater Makara I s land Land Birds 1. Cal linule 2. Black Pigeon 3. Red-cap Dove 4. Ground Dove 5. Kingfisher 6 . 7. 8 . 9. 10 . Wood Swallow Warbler Red Honey Eater White-eye (gray) Broadbi 11 Tongariki Island Land Birds 1. Gallinule 9. Pan- tail (large) 2. Malau 10. Pan- tail (small) 3. Kingfisher 11. White-eye (golden 4. Long- tail Dove 12. White-eye (gray' 5. Ground Dove 13. Red Honey Eater 6. Paraqiieet (small) 14. Warbler 7. Shrike 8. Thick-head 15. Red-cap Pinch Tongoa Island Land Birds 1. Malau 8. Thick-head 2. Pigeon (Pacific) 9. Kingfisher 3. Green Dove 10. Parrot 4. Long-tail Dove 11. Shrike 5. Red-cap Dove 12. 7/arbler 6. Ground Dove 13. Red Honey Eater 7. Rail (Viar) 14. 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Fan-tail ( smal 1 ) Epi Island 1. Malau 17. Broadbill 2. Gallinule 18. Shining Cuckoo 3. Pigeon (Pacific) 19. White-eye (gold) 4. Green Dove 29. White-eye (gray) 5. Long- tail Dove 21. Humming Bird 6. Ground Dove 22. Rail (Viar) 7. Red-cap Dove 23. Yellow-belly 8. Thrush 24. Swift (large) 9. Kingfisher 25. Swift (gray) 10. Shrike 26. Swift (white) 11. Thick-head 27. Swallow 12. Parrot 28. Hawk (large) 13. Paraqueet 29. Hawk (small) 14. Owl 30. Cuckoo 15. White Honey Eater 16. Red Honey Eater 31. Fan-tail Loperi Island 1. Black Pigeon 14. Red Honey Eater 2. Malau 15. Kingfisher 3. Green Dove 1 6 . Thrush 4. Ground Dove 17. Redbreast 5. Long- tail Love 18. Hummingbird 6. Red-cap Dove '19. Shrike 7. Yellow-belly 20. Red -head Finch 8 . Yellow- eye 21. Blue-head Finch 9. 'White-eye (golden) 22. Swift (white) 10. White-eye (gray) 23. Paraqueet (small) 11. Sooty Flycatcher 24. Wood Swallow 12. Fan-tail (small) 25. Broadbill 13. Warbler 26 . Hawk ( large ) Pauuma . Island 1. Hawk (large) 14. Paraqueet 2. Green Dove 15. Warbler 3. Ground Dove 16. White Honey Eater 4. Red-cap Dove 17. Red Honey Eater 5. Long- tail Dove 18. Redbreast 6. Yellow-eye 19. Red-head Finch 7. Yellow-belly 20. Swift (white) 8. Kingfisher 21. Swallow 9. Shrike 22. Cuckoo 10. Sooty Flycatcher 23. White-eye (golden) 11. Fan-tail (large) 24. White-eye (gray) 12. Fan-tail (small) 25 . Thrush 13. Parrot 26. Black Pigeon Ambrym Island 1. Black Pigeon 2. Ground Dove 3. Long- tail Dove 4. Red-cap Dove 5. Parrot 6. Thrush 7. Shrike 8. Kingfisher 9. Cuckoo ( Tahitian) 10. Cuckoo 11. Shining Cuckoo 12. Warbler Hal 1 1. Malau 2. Pigeon Pacific). 3. Black Pigeon 4. Hawk ( large) 5. Green Dove 6. Ground Dove 7. Red-cap Dove 8. Long- tail Dove 9. Thick-head 10. Yellow-eye 11. Yellow-belly 12. Crow 13. Thrush 14. Shrike 15. Kingfisher 16. Kingfisher (small) 17. Sooty Flycatcher 13. Red Honey Rater 14. ’White-eye (gray) 15. White-eye (golden) 16. Humming Bird 17. Swift (white) 18. Wood Swallow 19. Fan-tail (small) 20. Redbreast 21. Owl 22. Hawk ( large) 23. Broadbill ikul a Island 18. Fan-tail 19. Warbler 20. White Honey Eater 21. Red Honey Eater 22. White-eye' (golden) 23. 'White -eye gray) 24. Wood Swallow 25. Swallow 26 . Swi f t 27. Broadbill 28. Cuckoo 29. Shining Cuckoo 30. Parrot 31. Owl 32. Humming Bird 33. Swift (large) - Ifc. yjlJjeleher. ,tis 6> t/l<4 ttahtram pinjtif . ' _Pd natftr*m Ptilonopus perousei . Grimson-eap Dove Viti Levu. Photograph of life- size water-color paint- ing, showing flimsy method of constructing so-called nest, merely a platform of a few twigs. W. J. Belcher. Ptilotis proceri or Honey- sucker Viti Levu. A photograph of one of my life-size water- color paintings. W. J. Belcher. 08 ' ■: v- !le'59/r , -fesu -os , &y hr.: ',79,1 Jti ^V'V- - JStf f'lcQ - ' • . ' " | T n : q toXoo T" ! 'i' A 87 N r j - c/ J 100 / t ' -s5 *v Qljjhl $■ s. $ \l -S/ yy»™^{ t'f'M $\J> i i> b < { ^ J Aw *7' /