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flies. I have no reason to doubt the truth of his statement; at

any rate there was the Phalarope in good health.


I reasoned thus: if a wounded Phalarope will live in a

bedroom in Iceland for three weeks is it not possible to get

healthy Phalaropes to survive the journey to England, if suitable

food is provided on the voyage ? If kind fates permit me to go

to Iceland next summer I hope to make the attempt. Doubtless

there are many difficulties, but the Phalarope is such a charming

little wader he is worth a good deal of trouble.



PRINCE RUDOLPH’S BIRD OF PARADISE.


Paradisornis rudolphi.


By Sir Wirriam Ingram, Bart.


During nearly fifty years before the y^ear 1904, only sixteen

Birds of Paradise had been received at the London Zoological

Gardens, and these only arrived one or two at a time. Dr..

Wallace, the great naturalist and traveller, although he made

several attempts, was never successful in keeping, for any length

of time, those birds that were brought to him alive. It was only

in the year 1904 that any satisfactory result was achieved in

keeping any number of these lovely birds in captivity. Mr.

Goodfellow, who had had much experience in importing tropical

birds, such as Lories, Parrots, Pigeons, etc., landed in England

two King Birds, two Paradisea minor and one Paradisea apoda

all of which eventually found their way to the Regent’s Park

Zoological Gardens. In the following year I was successful in

landing at Genoa, for my aviaries near Monte Carlo, twenty Birds

of Paradise, three King Birds, one Paradisea minor and sixteen.

Paradisea apoda. Again in 1907 I imported twelve pairs of King

Birds, and six females of the Great Bird ( P. apoda ) ; and this

year I have been the means of introducing alive into this country

more than fifty Birds of Paradise belonging to seven different

species never before imported, including one specimen of that

exceeding rare and beautiful bird, the Blue Bird of Paradise

(Paradisornis rudolphi).


It was after viewing the case of stuffed Birds of Paradise

in the Natural History Museum that I was first stirred with the



