The principal bird is the megapodiusa gecko, and another small lizard are abundantof landshells we found a new Scarabus and a small brown Helix, in great abundance under blocks of coral, and

Under the bark I found two new land-shells (to be described in the Appendix) one of them a flattish Helix, in prodigious numbersand this more than ever satisfied me that even the smallest islands and detached reefs of the north-east coast may have species peculiar to themselves, nor did I ever return from any one of the 37 upon which I landed without some acquisitions to the collection.

Next conceive of the wire itself as a lesser helix of many convolutions, and repeat the experiment.

As our intercourse with the shore was limited to the two brief visits formerly mentioned, I made no addition to the collection, with the exception of a solitary Helix, nor was anything of zoological interest brought off by the natives, except a string of heads of a species of hornbill (Buceros plicatus) and feathers of a cassowary, a scarlet lory, and a few other birds.

The present example, like the late Bill, was an undergrown creature, and had the same curiously-twisted nose, the same asymmetrical face and similar earslarge, flat ears that stood out from his head like the handles of an amphora, that had strongly marked Darwinian tubercles, unformed helices and undeveloped lobules.