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the battering that the surf gave me on that coral 

 reef. The whaleboat was smashed to splinters. 



We made a camp there, and my young brother, who 

 had travelled overland, joined me at the camp, 

 together with another man whom I had engaged from 

 Cooktown. The collecting, however, was poor. Being 

 deprived of the whaleboat I arranged now to purchase 

 a small cutter, of some nine tons, called the Calliope, 

 and with her I went back to my old Nadi camp, where 

 I got some specimens of Birds of Paradise. I stayed 

 there for some six weeks and then went to Samarai, 

 from whence I sent on my collections to the Tring 

 Museum. 



In Woodlark Island I found several birds that were 

 new to me. Among them was a lory, called Lorius 

 hypoenochrous, a fine falcon of the group of the 

 Peregrine-Falcons (Falco ernesti), and others. 



On Fergusson Island not less than sixty-three 

 species of birds were found, some of which were 

 very rare, and a few quite unknown. 1 



The black and white flycatcher (Monarcha chaly- 

 beocephala), of which I found two only on Woodlark 



1 On Fergusson, besides the beautiful Paradlsea decora, two 

 kinds of Manucodia, t. e. Manucodia comrii and Phonygammus 

 hunsteini, were found. One of the rarest birds is an Ant-Thrush, 

 Pitta finschi, and the Myzomela forbesi, the male of which is 

 black, with the underside of the wings white, while the young 

 ones are brown with red cap and throat. A Honey-eater (Meli- 

 lestes fergussonis), the Frogmouth (Podargus intermedius), & 

 fine little Parrakeet (Cyclopsittacus virago), and a Pigeon (Ptilopus 

 lewisi vicinut) were new. E. H. 



