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BIRD NOTES: 
THE 
JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. 
The Transfer of a Choice Collection. 
By H. GOODCHILD, m.b.o.o. 
From one source or another, most of our I'eaders will have 
heard of the fact that our esteemed member, Mr. 0. Millsum, has 
departed from our shores to take up special duties on the contin- 
ent. There seems, however, to be some misapprehension as to 
his status, as his object and position have been somewhat misrep- 
resented in one or two of the accounts of the change which have 
appeared in print. Mr. Millsum, who is going into the special 
service of Mr. Pauvvel, of Everberg, near Brussels, will take the 
responsibility for the welfare of upwards of forty aviaries of one 
kind and another, which, when completed, will contain the finest 
collection of liirds in the world ; but this will not be his whole 
and sole interest in his new Surroundings, as he will at least keep 
in touch witli his old friends and the interests they have in com- 
mon with himself in his native Britain. At the beginning of 
April, I had the pleasure of staying several days under his hospit- 
able roof, and had unlimited opportunity of seeing the fine series 
of birds which is to be added to the already superb collection 
formed by Mr. Pauvvel. Some of these birds are already well 
known, as they have been shown in public at the various 
exhibitions held during the season just passed, but as the collec- 
tion includes many which have not been exhibited, it may be of 
interest to our readers in general, if some account is given of the 
rarer or more beautiful species. 
Foremost amongst them stands the famous Hunstein's Bird 
of Paradise, the only one the general public has ever had the 
opportunity of studying at close quarters outside the Zoo, and the 
only one at all that I remember seeing in perfect condition and in 
full breeding plumage. Since this bird was last exhibited (at the 
Crystal Palace in February) a mate has been found for it, 
and I had the rare pleasure of seeing a pair of these splendid 
