ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
BULLETIN 13 
YOUNG BACTRIAN CAMEL 
This notable arrival was born in the Zoological Park, and when photographed it was being christened ‘‘Sophie Smith” 
by two Senior girls from Smith College 
Princess Alexandra’s Parrakeet.—Larger 
and perhaps more delicately colored, is a male 
Princess Alexandra’s Parrakeet (Spathopterus 
alexandrae). Its predominating colors are soft 
gray, apple green and purple. The history of 
this bird is most interesting since, after its cap- 
ture in its home in central Australia, it was car- 
ried 800 miles on camel-back across the desert, 
then 150 miles on horseback and a final fifty by 
motor, to Oonadatta, the railway terminus. 
From that out-post to Adelaide, is a distance of 
about 500 miles by rail but that was not enough, 
since the bird still had to travel another thousand 
miles by train to Sydney. To a bird so ac- 
customed to the road, the trip from Sydney to 
New York was of small moment and he reached 
us in immaculate condition. 
Kea and Kaka.—There was a pair each of 
the famous sheep-killing parrot of New Zealand, 
the Kea (Nestor notablis) and its much rarer 
cousin, the Kaka (N. meridionalis). Both of 
these birds, more especially the Kaka, have been 
brought to the verge of extermination by the 
colonists. 
White-fronted Bronze-wing Pigeon.— 
Handsome doves and pigeons are always wel- 
additions to a collection of live birds, 
since the seed-eating species, at least, are hardy 
and long-lived. Mr. Joseph had a number of 
these desirables, several of which are of great 
rarity. The finest is the White-fronted Bronze- 
wing Pigeon (Henicophaps albifrons), a product 
of New Guinea. It is a grotesque creature, 
with a huge, rail-like bill and a white mark on 
the forehead, very suggestive of the frontal 
plate of a gallinule. There seems to be no 
record of any previous appearance of this bird 
in captivity. 
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Pigeons.—The genus Phlogoenas, which in- 
cludes the well-known Bleeding-heart Pigeon, 
had three representatives in Mr. Joseph’s ship- 
ment, all of which seem new to collections. 
These are Beccari’s Pigeon (P. beccarii), the 
Amethyst Pigeon (P. kubaryi), from the Caro- 
