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Wakaia we pretty well ransacked ; from Mokane, which ad- 
joins it, I inspected a small collection. Our knowledge of 
Vanua Levu is restricted to the neighbourhood of Bua (Sandal- 
wood Bay). Here Messrs. Holmes, Swayne, and Tempest 
were kind contributors; and my son spent a month at the 
eastern end of the island. Mr. Kleinschmidt (Herr Godef- 
froy’s collector) has worked the southern side; but, with the 
exception of Lamprolia minor (Kleinsch.), I know of nothing 
new that he has procured. He told me that he obtained the 
Orange Dove (Chrysena victor), Platycercus tabuensis, and. 
other known species. Taviuni was well worked by my son 
and myself at Ngila, on the north-eastern side, and skimmed 
by Mr. Tempest about Vuna Point, further south. My 
son and I visited Loma Loma and Mango, which I place 
together, but had not time for much real work. I have 
visited the whole of the maritime districts of Viti Levu; and 
though I had no opportunity of collecting, I used my eyes. 
My son has made several trips up the Rewa river, and stayed 
a month at Suva, on the south-east end. I have also paid 
these localities flying visits, and have received small collec- 
tions from two kind contributors on the Rewa, Messrs. Storck 
and Abbott. At Kandavu I stayed some days, and saw the 
whole of the ‘ Challenger’ collection made there; and my 
servant, collecting for Mr. Ramsay, of the Sydney Museum, 
worked there for some weeks and obtained several new species, 
which I do not describe, as they belong to Mr. Ramsay, but 
simply indicate. 
The Sea-fowl and Waders require more attention. Though 
we have added several to the list, I am sure the low-lying 
Yasawa Islands and the eastern group will furnish many more ; 
so also will the Ringgold Islands to the north-east. It was on 
these latter that the Earl of Pembroke was wrecked; and he de- 
scribes the vast numbers of birds on the island on which they 
landed (see ‘South Sea Bubbles. By the Earl and the Doctor’). 
As the Sea-fowl are naturally a wandering race, I have left a 
column in the Table expressly for them, indicating by the point 
of the compass the portion of the group where I have chiefly 
seen the species. The acquisition by my son of the rare little 

