516 Letters, Notes, and Extracts. 
Birds-of-Paradise in England.—Mr. Walter Goodfellow, 
the Collector, has recently returned from New Guinea, bring- 
ing with him a number of very rare birds. Among these 
are two examples of the Red Bird-of-Paradise (Paradisea 
rubra), a Twelve-wired Bird -of- Paradise (Seleucides 
nigricans), and several pairs of the King Bird-of-Paradise 
(Cicinnurus regius). On account of their sober plumage, 
hens of the Paradise-birds were formerly little valued, and 
the only example recorded as having been imported is a 
hen King-bird that died the day after reaching Sir William 
Ingram’s aviary. Moreover, there are many Lories and 
Lorikeets, a Great Black Cockatoo (Microglossus aterrimus), 
and a Racket-tailed Parrot (Prionoturus platurus). On 
arrival the birds were sent, by the courtesy of Mrs. John- 
stone, to her fine aviaries at Burrswood, near Groombridge ; 
they were in excellent. condition, shewing that sedulous 
attention must have been given to them on the passage 
home. On Saturday one of the Red, the Twelve-wired, 
and two pairs of the King Bird-of-Paradise arrived at 
the Zoological Gardens and were placed in the Tropical 
Bird-house, where they will be a great attraction. The hen 
King-birds are the only forms new to the collection ; but 
there are also a pair of Red-fronted Lories (Chalcopsittacus 
scintillatus) and the Racket-tailed Parrot. Both species 
have been exhibited before, and these are not yet on show, 
but are kept inside in the Parrot-house, where is also 
another rarity—the New-Zealand Night Parrot (Stringops 
habroptilus), a nocturnal species, which is rapidly dis- 
appearing from its native haunts.—‘ The Times,’ June 12th, 
1907. 
Death of Professor Newton.—As our last pages are passing 
through the press we learn with the utmost regret of the 
death on June 7th of Professor Alfred Newton, of Magdalene 
College, Cambridge, so well known to all of us, and one of the 
original founders of ‘The Ibis.’ It is with great reluctance 
that we postpone a notice of his life and work until our next 
number; but the time is too short to compile a memorial 
worthy of him, or indeed to obtain the necessary material. 
