430 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie- Grant on the Display 



1 Seleucides nigricans. Twelve-wired Bird-of-Paradise. 

 (1 cJ, March 1881.) 



2 Cicinnurus regius. King Bird-of-Paradise. 

 (2 c?, Oct. 1904.) 



1 Manucodia chalybea. Green Manucode. 

 (1 o, March 1881.) 



At the present time no fewer than five adult male examples 

 of the three species, P. apoda, P. minor, and C. regius, are to 

 be seen in the large aviaries in the Insect-House, the two 

 examples of the last-named species being the first brought 

 alive to this country. All these birds, along with others, 

 including females, which unfortunately died, were procured 

 for Mrs. E. J. Johnstone by Mr. Walter Goodfellow, whose 

 name is well known to the readers of ' The Ibis ' from his 

 interesting account of his travels in South America and 

 the birds that he met with there. 



The two King-Birds were afterwards purchased for the 

 Gardens, and the examples of P. apoda and P. minor were 

 subsequently deposited there by their owner. 



At the date of writing (April Gth, 1905) only one example 

 of P. minor is in full plumage, the other male having shed 

 the whole of its ornamental side-plumes, while the male of 

 P. apoda is also rapidly moulting. 



The King-Birds came into full plumage in February, and 

 grew their long ornamental middle tail-feathers with beautiful 

 tight-curled green tips ; but after about three weeks both 

 birds shed these feathers, though they retained their 

 ornamental side-plumes. 



Finding that the examples of P. apoda and P. minor 

 exhibited in the Bird-Gallery at the Natural History Museum, 

 in supposed attitudes of display, were quite wrongly mounted, 

 I have been at considerable pains to make a careful study, 

 with sketches, of the full-plumaged male of P. minor now 

 to be seen in the Gardens, and to ascertain what postures 

 he assumes. 



The following account of his general behaviour and mode 

 of display, the result of a number of early visits to the 

 Gardens, is, I believe, accurate in every detail, and has been 



