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on to the German Solomons, making the island of 

 Bougainville my headquarters. At that time (1904) 

 the Germans were using Bougainville Island as a 

 recruiting ground for labour for their colony in New 

 Britain, and the German law was that boats should 

 not go to Bougainville without first entering at New 

 Britain. Now New Britain was some 200 miles 

 out of my track, and so I took leave of my friends the 

 Germans to collect at Bougainville without going 

 through the formality of entering at the Customs at 

 New Britain. I sailed up a little river a short 

 distance from the coast and made a clearing out of 

 sight of the coast -line and started collecting. There 

 I was able occasionally to see a German vessel 

 patrolling the coast, but on no occasion was I seen. 



At Bougainville I got a very handsome and big 

 kingfisher new to me, and a waterhen or large rail. 

 I also got two butterflies new to me, a Papilio and a 

 Charaxes. The male of this Charaxes was perfectly 

 black with just a single row of blue half-moon shaped 

 dots inside of both wings. 1 Of the female of this 

 species I had got two broken specimens before from 

 Choiseul Island. The Papilio got at Bougainville was 

 somewhat similiar to a previous Rendova specimen, 

 but had more colour, especially in the hindwing. This 

 Bougainville kingfisher had orange bill and feet, red 

 chestnut head, blue collar, red cape, blue wings and 

 tail, and a light brilliant blue streak on back. The 

 1 A form of Eulepis epigenes, G. & S. (1888). K. J. 



