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be replaced : this he did on two occasions and his disgust w r as great

when he attempted it a third time and discovered that I had added

a second fastening to the door which he was unable to reach. This

year my younger Hang'nest let herself out of her little aviary in the

same way and gave me some trouble : the hook of one of the

doors had become slack and I had to bend it so that it closed with

a spring and thus she was unable to lift it as before.


Now a bird which can watch its owner when he closes the

door of its cage and say to itself “ 0, that’s the trick is it? I’ll do

that presently and escape ” is not a creature quite incapable of

reasoning ; and even those, if there be any in these days, who believe

that all created things are as they were at the beginning of the

world, could hardly assert that it acted from “blind instinct” — a

silly expression because instinct is never blind.



BIRDS OF PARADISE ON LITTLE

TOBAGO (WEST INDIES).


In November, 1913, Third Series, Yol, V., No. 1 we published

an account, with photographs, by Mr. Collingwood Ingram, and

some additional notes by his father, Sir William Ingram, of the

Birds of Paradise which were imported by Sir William and turned

out on the island of Little Tobago.


Mr. O. Millsum has kindly sent notes of daily observations

made later on by Robert Herold, who is engaged to watch the

progress of the Apodas, and to protect them in any manner possible.


It will be remembered, by the way, that Mr. Millsum was for

some little while, up to two years ago, at Everberg in Belgium ;

where he tended the splendid collection of rare birds belonging to

Monsieur Robert Pauwels, this collection having been entirely

brought together under Mr. Millsum’s direct supervision.


There is not much doubt that where once Monsieur Pauwel’s

aviaries stood, destruction and desolation, as is the case over nearly

the whole of that ill-fated little country, reigns.


Mr. Millsum knows Louvain well, since it is only a few miles

from Everberg, where he had under his care nine species of Paradise



