Our dogs caught many, as they do not show so much agility as is usual in the genus.

The principal bird is the megapodius--a gecko, and another small lizard are abundant--of landshells we found a new Scarabus and a small brown Helix, in great abundance under blocks of coral, and on the trunks and branches of trees, a pretty Cyclostoma (C.vitreum) formerly found by the French in New Caledonia, also a new and pretty Helix, remarkable for its angular sinuated mouth and conical spire--this last has been named H.macgillivrayi by Professor E.Forbes.The reef furnished many radiata and crustacea, and as usual the shell collectors--consisting of about one-half the ship's company, reaped a rich harvest of cowries, cones, and spider shells, amounting to several hundredweight.

One day I was much amused when, on hailing one of our men whom I observed perched up among the top branches of a tree, and asking whether it was a nest that he had found, the answer returned was: "Oh no, Sir, its these geotrochuses that I am after." THE COCONUT PALM.
The southernmost island of the group differs from Number 4 in being higher and more rocky.

Many of the trees here were very large, straight, and branching only near the top.

It appeared to me that they would be highly useful as timber, and so regretted being unable to procure specimens, on account of their great height.