Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 549 



Museum/ We are glad to see that this useful Institution 

 is in good case, and that the zoological collection has been 

 recently moved into a new building. Among the recent 

 additions to it is a Bittern (Botaurus stellaris) obtained on 

 the Perseverance Estate, Singapore. The Bittern is well 

 known as a winter-visitor to North India and Burmah, and 

 has been obtained as far south as Pegu, but its occurrence 

 at Singapore has not, so far as we are aware, been recorded. 



Live Paradise-Birds in London. — No ornithologist who 

 goes to London this summer should omit to visit the Bird 

 House in the Zoological Society's Gardens and inspect the 

 beautiful series of Paradise-Birds now on view there. They 

 comprise examples of five species, represented by ten 

 individuals. 



1. Paradisea apoda. Of this there is a splendid male in 

 full plumage, which, if judiciously fed with meal-worms, 

 can be induced to " show off " in the most delightful manner. 

 He is not, however, on good terms with two in the adjoining 

 cage, one of which is certainly a hen while the other may be 

 a young male. 



2. Paradisea minor. One male. 



3. Paradisea rubra. One male. 



4. Seleucides alba. One male. 



5. Cicinnurus reyius. Two pairs. 



New Expedition to East Africa. — It is announced in the 

 last number of the ' Ornithologische Monatsberichte ' that 

 two German ornithologists — Dr. A. Berger and Herr Haupt- 

 man Roth — are planning a new collecting-expedition into 

 Eastern Africa, starting from Nairobi next autumn. They 

 propose to visit Mt. Kenia, Leikipia, Lake Baringo, and 

 Mt. Elgon, and after going round Lake Victoria to pass 

 across Uganda to Lake Albert, and to return home down the 

 White Nile. 



