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Correspondence . 
Military, Hyacintliine, and Glaucous, la addition I had various 
Amazon Parrots and Parrakoets. 
Probably there may not be much of interest, save to me 
personally, in these notes, but I am w^riting at the Editor's 
requesr for a few notes to accompany the photos. If hrei-'diag 
results were mediocre, my birds, " past and present." have 
been to me a source of great interest and pleasure, and, I hope 
may prove of some little interest to some other member. 
♦ 
Correspondence. 
115, NOT OUT. 
Sir. — The enclosed cutting from the Sydney 'Daily Telegragh ' 
(^May 11th, 1912), will probably interest some of our members. I 
only received it this wtek . My correspondent has sejii the bird sevvral 
times and states that the details given are correct. 
Sheffield, 10/3/11)15. R. COLTON. 
" The bird was trembling in every feather. Poor thing, ths 
'■ visitors think ; he must feel the cold this wintry weather. But it is 
" old age that makes him shaky ; he is just the same in the. middle 
" ot summer." 
'" Paddy Bennett lives at the hotel at Tom L'gly's Point and 
"if hi.s age is not 115 years, as his owner believes, it must be going 
"on that way. He looks his ago, whatever it is, and Mrs. Bennett, 
"the licensee of the hotel, reckons it thus. She first became acquainted 
" with him 35 years ago, when he belonged to one Capt. George Ellis. 
" Capt. Ellis died soon after at the age of 89, and he first met Paddy 
" whei. an apprentice on a sailing ship in the South Seas. Paddy was 
" thei! said to be nine years of age, and was a fine bird!, with bcau- 
" tiful white feathers and yellow crest. For he is (or was) a Sulphur- 
" crested Cockatoo — one of the sort that go about in floi ks and tear 
"up the wheat in the farmers' paddocks. Fancy Paddy Hying with a 
" flock of cockatoos now-a-days !" 
" So his age has been fixed at 115, and in case an3'one thinks 
" a bird might not live that long, let us add that next to tortoises 
"and fish, birds are about the longest-lived of any of God's creatures. 
" Let it be remembered parenthetically though, that the oldest Stdphur- 
" crested Cockatoo, of which an authentic record has be3n kept " Paddy 
"Bennett" excepted), died at the age of 75 — quie a chicken to Paddy . 
"Next Wattle-Day Paddy will celebrate his llGth birthday, because 
" as the actual day of his birth is not on record, Wattle-Day has been 
"chosen as being as probable as any other day. He will then hold 
" a special levee." 
" The holding of levees is quite the usual thing with this 
"gay old bird. Hia liie is one long levee. Visitors call iu to see/ 
