All rights reserved. July, 1911, 



BIRD NOTES: 



THE 



JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. 



The Aviaries and Birds at Hoddam Castle. 



By Wesley T. Page, F.Z.S., Etc. 



Contmued from page 182. 



The description already given of these numerous 

 aviaries falls very far short of the reality, and the same must 

 in a greater degree, apply to the following notes on the unique 

 and rare series of birds which occupy them. Space will not 

 permit me to enlarge upon them as I fain would do, but 

 for the benefit of new members, I am figuring the Greater and 

 Lesser Apodas and King Bird of Paradise — these have already 

 appeared in Bird Notes, and are from drawings by Mr. H. 

 Goodchild, from living birds. Most of the B. of P. described 

 in these notes were collected and brought to this country by 

 our esteemed member Mr. W. Goodfellow. 



NEW GUINEA RIFLE BIRD (PtUorhis inter cedens). 

 This exquisite species is most active and I had an abundant op- 

 portunity of watching its deportment, though unfortunately I did 

 not witness the courting display. On the day I left, this 

 species laid an e^Q (dropped it from the perch), two others 

 were also laid, but all were broken (see note on p.4 185 of 

 current vol.), since then a root has been supplied, which the 

 hen has lined with leaves, etc., and hopes are entertained of 

 another clutch being laid. 



Mr. W. Goodfellow kindly informs me, in a letter dated 

 June 30th, that two more eggs have been laid, but unfortun- 

 tately again, both are broken, although a beautiful nest was 

 made in the honeysuckle of banana and bamboo leaves, and 

 shavings. 



This species haunts the denser scrub near a running' 

 stream; it is solitary in its habits, wild and shy, and not 

 easy to shoot or capture. 



