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This diary records a visit to nine islands, eight of them lying to the south and west of Stewart Island, during February and March 1965. The measure of success achieved in transferring saddleback and bush wren in September, 1964, to vermin-free islands is reported on, and an assessment made of the damage by rats on Big South Cape Island. The importance of Codfish Island is discussed, and the bird-life on seldom visited Bird Island described. In appendices are given the results of a census taken by the party, and compared with a census similarly taken in April, 1964; also lists of the birds recorded on the various islands, and compared, where applicable, with lists made by Dr. R. A. Falla in June, 1955, and May, 1956, and by B. D. Bell and party in April, 1961, and August, 1964.