1160 NOTES ON THE BOWER BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA, 



will be necessary therefore to receive a complete series from North 

 Western Australia, where the type was obtained, before their points 

 of distinction can be finally determined. 



Chlamydodera cerviniventris, Gould. 



This species is found at Cape York, the Islands of Torres Straits, 

 and in the southern portions of New Guinea. This is the only 

 known species of the genus that has not the handsome rose- 

 coloured frill on the nape of the neck. Its bower is larger than 

 that of any of the foregoing, and has the sides nearly parallel 

 with one another, with a very slight curvature at the top. It 

 is not so highly ornamented as the bowers of other members of 

 this genus. 



The nest is an open one, cup-shaped, and built near the ground ; 

 it is composed of twigs, pieces of bark, and moss, and is lined 

 inside with grass, &c. The egg is very like that of C. maculata, 

 with the same peculiar linear markings crossing and recrossing 

 each other all round ; it is slightly larger and in form more 

 swollen. Dr. Ramsay informs me that an egg of this species 

 said to have been taken by one of Mr. G oldie's party while 

 exploring in New Guinea, found its way to London, where it 

 was sold at a great price as that of Paradisea rac/c/iana, which 

 it in no way resembles. 



Sericulus melinus, Lath. 

 Plate XIX., fig. 4. 



This, perhaps, the most beautiful of all the Bower-builders, and 

 one of the earliest known species, was described by Latham in 

 1801, under the name of Turdus melinus ; since that date, how- 

 ever, it has been redescribed many times and under various 



