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Mr. Graham Renshaw,



THE LESSER BIRD OF PARADISE.


By Graham Renshaw, M.B.


Aviculturists have hitherto enjoyed but few opportunities

of studying Birds of Paradise in captivit5 r : indeed the rare

occasions on which living specimens have arrived in Europe may

almost be counted on the fingers of one hand.


Many years ago two examples of the Lesser Bird of Paradise

(Paradisea minor) were brought home by Mr. A. R. Wallace.

The Twelve-wired species (Seleucides nigricans) has once been

exhibited at the Zoo, and the Great Bird of Paradise (P. apoda)

was represented there last summer. In 1901 I saw a fine adult



Drawn from a sketch by Graham Renshaw, M.B.



Paradisea minor , $ juv.


.SUNNING ITSELF.



Amsterdam Zoological Gardens, 1902.



