. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Bulletin 87 Vol. 87 by members of the Whitney South Sea Expedition in 1927 and 1929, and recorded in the Whitney journals. Greenway (1958:311-2) regards Microgoura as probably extinct, basing this on the opinions of those Whitney collectors who scoured Choiseul for it without success. A less pessimistic conclusion may be drawn from a study of the fieldnotes of Hannibal Hamlin, deposited with the rest of the Whitney fieldnotes in the In 1927, the Whitney Expedition, under Rollo Beck, collected for six days opposite Moli Island towa
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Bulletin 87 Vol. 87 by members of the Whitney South Sea Expedition in 1927 and 1929, and recorded in the Whitney journals. Greenway (1958:311-2) regards Microgoura as probably extinct, basing this on the opinions of those Whitney collectors who scoured Choiseul for it without success. A less pessimistic conclusion may be drawn from a study of the fieldnotes of Hannibal Hamlin, deposited with the rest of the Whitney fieldnotes in the In 1927, the Whitney Expedition, under Rollo Beck, collected for six days opposite Moli Island towards the north-western end of Choiseul. Hamhn wrote here (21 Nov.): '*Mr. Beck has found that the natives savvy [Microgoura] but they give the impression that it is ; Four days were then spent at the southern end of Choiseul Bay, a few miles to the north, but no mention of Microgoura occurs in this period. In 1929 Hamlin, with a team of collectors, returned to Choiseul for a more thorough search. No mention of the pigeon occurs in journal entries at northern Choiseul Bay, Ririo [modern Nio] or Senga [opposite Ruiana Island, probably modern Lengatura], two camps on the north-eastern coast, nor from inland areas reached from these camps. Map of Choiseul, British Solomon Islands, showing localities mentioned in the text (based on Hamlin's sketch map). f?l»?IO. ^f^^ a At Sasamunga on the southern coast, however, Hamlin wrote (7 Oct.): "Enquiries about the Microgoura resulted in some new information: the bird they know here from my description is called "kukuru-ni-lova'\ lit. *'pigeon-belong-ground," and is recalled only by the older men, who say that cats, introduced since the advent of the Mission, have destroyed so many that they cannot remember when one was last seen in the bush. And for the past ten years practically all the bush people have moved down to the salt water. The big river basin Kolombangara wc traversed yesterday is said to have been a
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