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not^ however, arriving till Januarj^ 1901 (see ' Ibis/ 1901, 
p. 737), and one to Denmark (see above, p. 163). 
A wonderful new Bird of Paradise. — In the last number 
of the ' Ornithologische Monatsberichte ' (Jahrg. ix. p. 185) 
Dr. Reichenow describes a new and wonderful Paradise-bird, 
a skin of which has been recently received at Berlin from 
Kaiser Wilhelm''s-land (German New Guinea), where it is 
said to have been obtained in the neighbourhood of Friedrich- 
Wilhelm^s Hafen. It appears to be probably a bastard 
between Seleucides niger and some species of true Paradisea 
— perhaps P. minor finschi or P. august ae -victor ice, nearly 
every feature of the novelty being met with in one or the other 
of these two forms. Dr. Reichenow proposes for this bird the 
name of Paradisea mirabilis, if it should turn out not to be a 
hybrid ; and adds that if such shall be found to be not the 
case, it would probably be necessary to give it a new generic 
name. A figure of this bird will be given in the ' Journal 
fiir Ornithologie.^ 
The Pretoria Museum and Zoological Garden. — We are 
informed that Mr. Lewis T. GriflB.n, now Taxidermist at the 
South African Museum, Capetown, after six years^ service in 
that Institution, has accepted an appointment as Chief Taxi- 
dermist to the Pretoria Museum and Chief Overseer of the 
Zoological Garden attached thereto. The Director of both 
these Institutions is Dr. J. W. B. Gunning, F.Z.S. 
XI. — Obituary. 
Mr. John Young, Mr. H. M. Courage, the Rev. H. A. 
Macpherson, Mr. W. Doherty, and Cav. L. M. d^Albertis. 
Mr. John Young, who died on the 25th of May last, was 
the second son of the late Rev. Edward Newton Young, 
Rector of Quainton, Bucks, and was born in June 1838. 
Being originally intended for the Navy, he was educated at 
Dr. Burney's noted Naval College at Gosport, but a slight 
deafness altered his destination, and, after a voyage to India 
