In all the news about flight—from Mrs. Mollison downwards—there is nothing that will appeal to the Nature lover more than the Auckland advice (6th November) than an eminent world-traveller, the godwit, began to arrive at Kaipara at the end of October, after her globe-spanning flight from the Arctic, where she breeds. Eastern Siberia and Alaska are both breeding places, and most of the godwits may thus be by birth Soviet subjects, but no questions will be asked. The godwit long preceded the Soviet, and may long survive it, if bird consciousness can overcome pot-hunting. The godwit, of course, does not make a complete non-stop flight, but “New Zealand Birds” (W. R. B. Oliver, M.Sc.) states that the flight from New Guinea or Northern Australia is probably non-stop, as very few godwits have been observed on Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, or the Kermadecs. “The migration route both from Eastern Siberia and Alaska is through Japan, China, and the Philippines.” The main body of godwits arrives in New Zealand in October and November, and leaves again in March and April. They are timed to arrive in Siberia and Alaska in May, and lay eggs in May–June. The young and the old begin to fly south in August–September.