Obituary. 173 



not, however, arriving till January 1901 (see ' Ibis,' 1931, 

 p. 737), and one to Denmark (see above, p. 163). 



A wonderful new Bird of Paradise. — In tlie last number 

 of the ' Ornithologische Monatsberichte ' (Jalirg. ix. p. 185) 

 Dr. Reichenow describes a new and wonderful Paradise-bird, 

 a skin of which has been recently received at Berlin from 

 Kaiser Wilhelra^s-land (German New Guinea), where it is 

 said to have been obtained in the neighbourhood of Friedrich- 

 Wilhelm's Hafen. It appears to be probably a bastard 

 between Seleucides niger and some species of true Paradisea 

 — perhaps P. minor finschi or P. augustde-victorice, nearly 

 every feature of the novelty being met with in one or the other 

 of these two forms. Dr. Reichenow proposes for this bird the 

 name of Paradisea mirabilis, if it should turn out not to be a 

 hybrid ; and adds that if such shall be found to be not the 

 case, it would probably be necessary to give it a new generic 

 name. A figure of this bird will be given in the ' Journal 

 fiir Ornithologie.^ 



The Pretoria Museum and Zoological Garden. — We are 

 informed that Mr. Lewis T. Griffin, now Taxidermist at the 

 South African Museum, Capetown, after six years' service in 

 that Institution, has accepted an appointment as Chief Taxi- 

 dermist to the Pretoria Museum and Chief Overseer of the 

 Zoological Garden attached thereto. The Director of both 

 these Institutions is Dr. J. W. B. Gunning, F.Z.S. 



XI. — Obituary. 



Mr. John Young, Mr. H. M. Courage, the Rev. H. A. 

 Macpherson, Mr. W. Doherty, and Cav. L. M. d'Albertis. 



Mr. John Young, who died on the 25th of May last, was 

 the second son of the late Ilev. Edward Newton Younir, 

 Rector of Quainton, Bucks, and was born in June 1838. 

 Being originally intended for the Navy, he was educated at 

 Dr. Burney's noted Naval College at Gosport, but a slight 

 deafness altered his destination, and," after a voyage to India 



