All riif/ilx rpsprred.] March, 1910. 
BIRD NOTES: 
THE 
JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. 
The Stella Lory. 
( Ghdnnosytid stelkej. 
By Wesley T. Page, F.Z.S., M.B.N.O.U. 
I much regret that the article to accompany Mr. Goodchikl's 
exquisite phvte is not from the pen of those who have kept this 
species, as in consequence it must be a compilation, with perhaps 
the one saving feature that so far as I speak personally as to its 
demeanour, it is fr'om my observation of the ))ird exhibited by Mr. 
Millsnm* at the recent L.P.O.S. Show, wliich came from Mr. 
Brook's series of this mayniiicent species, and that I have two or 
three of Mr. Brook's letters to draw upon. So far as I know only 
two English avicnlturists have possessed this species, viz., our 
esteemed member Mi-. E. J. P>rook and Mrs. Johnstone. 
No eulogy of mine is needed, with the exquisite plate 
before us, but beautiful and life-like as Mr. Goodchikl's drawing 
is (those who have seen the living bird will fully appreciate this), 
it does not, cannot, do justice to the glowing living beauty of this 
indescribable species — a stray sentence from one of Mr. Brook's 
letters, received in I'.tO.S, faintly indicates this ; he writes : " My 
group of Stella Lories makes a grand display of colour " — since I 
have seen the living bird, that short sentence is pregnant with 
new meaning to me, and in imagination I see them disporting 
themselves beneath a summer's sun, with a brilliance that even 
imagination cannot reach, and neither pen describe nor brush 
depict. 
This beautiful genus contains but three species, the follow- 
ing key to which I quote from the Brit. Mus. Cat., Vol. xx : 
*Mr. ]\Iillsum will have the sympathy of all members in his great 
loss. The draughts at the Palace i)rovitig too much for his beautiful exhibit 
—it succumbed thereto on the morning following its return from the show. 
