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are now 47 Birds of Paradise belonging to eleven different 

 species living in the Zoological Society's Gardens, namely : — 



4 Greater Birds of Paradise Paradisea apoda. 



1 Lesser Bird of Paradise „ minor. 



1 Red Bird of Paradise „ rubra. 



6 Count Raggi's Birds of Paradise .... „ raggiana. 



5 Hunstein's Birds of Paradise Diphyttodes hunsteini. 



1 Twelve-wired Bird of Paradise Seleucides nigricans. 



8 Lawes' Six-plumed Birds of Paradise . Parotia lawesi. 



9 King Birds of Paradise Ciciwnurus regius. 



3 Port Moresby Rifle-birds Ptilorhis intercedens. 



4 Violet Manucodes , . , . .Phonygama purpureo-violacea. 



5 Black Manucodes . , Manucodia air a. 



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During his last expedition to New Guinea, Mr. Goodfellow 

 secured, for Mr. E. J. Brooks's Aviaries, no less than 

 30 Paradise-birds of different species. Among these were 

 included such rare forms as Paradisornis rudolphi, Epimachus 

 meyeri, Astrarchia stephanice, Diphyllodes hunsteini, and Loria 

 maria, besides some little-known Lorikeets*. 



The most remarkable new bird discovered during the 

 present year is, I think, Mr. Rothschild's Pseudocalyptomena 

 graueri t, discovered by Herr Rudolph Grauer in the bamboo- 

 forests N.E. of Lake Tanganyika. It is quite different in 

 structure and colour from any known Ethiopian form. As 

 it has a long outer primary, I think it can hardly belong to 

 the Muscicapidce, as has been suggested, but I know not 

 where to place it. 



Before I finish my address I may say that I am not 

 infrequently asked by my friends and correspondents what 

 are the best tours to be made in countries easy of access, 

 and likely to produce ornithological results of interest. To 

 this I reply, that such unsearched spots are now, indeed, 

 few and far between ; but I think the following journeys 

 would yield some satisfactory results. 



* See Avicult. Journ. vii. p. 336. 

 t See ' Ibis,' 1909, p. 690, pi. x. 



