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interest among aviculturists and ornithologists, not only on ac- 
count of its extreme rarity but because of its strikingly unusual 
appearance. Although a difficult bird to establish in the first in- 
stance, it has thrived in captivity and still looks perfectly happy 
in the Bird House at Regent’s Park, four years after its capture. 
The enthusiasm which lured me on to try to find out some- 
thing of the picathartes in the wild state was now beginning to 
tell its tale. I felt decidedly off color, and on being medically 
examined it was found that among other things I was suffering 
from malaria, amebic dysentery and hook-worm, the latter no 
doubt contracted through wearing leaky shoes. 
Cholmondley’s life in the London Zoo was a great contrast to 
his existence in the Cameroons, but he settled down and became a 
great favorite with the visiting crowds. He was at all times 
friendly to those who liked him and who showed no fear, but 
he was inclined to regard anyone unsympathetic as an enemy, no 
doubt due to his upbringing among African natives who teased 
him. 
His end was tragic. One day while in the sanatorium awaiting 
dental treatment, he escaped, and although rounded up in a Zoo 
building, he was shot before anyone was called who could easily 
have handled him. 
