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This species is ;i late breeder, eg^s seldom hein^' obtained before tlie middle of No\ember, 

 and in some seasons as late as the end of January. 



Young males are similar in plumage to the adult female. Immature or parti-coloured 

 males show the adult plumage of the two sexes, but the old greyish-green body feathers are 

 duller in colour than in the adult female. In three semi-adult males now before me all the new 

 purplish-black body feathers, as well as those of the wings and tail, were acquired bv a direct 

 moult. Some of the primaries and black tail feathers are only two-thirds of the length of 

 the dull golden-brown remaining feathers. In another specimen exhibiting a further progress 

 towards maturity, the whole of the plumage is purplish-black, except on the rump, thighs, and 

 abdomen; on these parts the full adult plumage is being gradually acquired bv a change of 

 colour in the feathers. 



O-en-as CIEaiXj-.f^I^^'mDOIDEIK-A., Gould. 



Chlamydodera maculata. 



SPOTTED BUWER-BIKU. 

 Calodera maculata, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, I83G, p. lOG. 

 Chlamydern macidata, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol.. Vol. IV., pi. 8 (1848). 



Chlamydodera macidata, Gould, Haadbk. Bds. Austr.. Vol. I., p. -tlO (1865); Sharpe, Cat. Bds. 

 Brit. .Mus., Vol. VI., p. 389 (1881). 



Adult male — General colour above dark brou-a: each feather of the mantle, scapulars, back, 

 rump, and upper tail coverts ivith a rounded spot of laivny-buff at the tip, some of the Jealhers of the 

 mantle with lighter edges; wing coverts like the back; primaries brown, externally edged and 

 narrowly tipped ivilh bujfy-rvhite ; secondaries brown, viirgined and largely tipped with rich huff, 

 the outer series being also narroivly edged with ivhite near the ends of their shafts; tail Jeathers 

 brown, edged with light brown and tipped with rich buff which passes into white at the extreme ends 

 of the feathers ; feathers of the head and sides of the neck lawny -buff with narrow blackish edges, 

 (hose on the crown with silvery tips; on the nape a band of beautiful rosy-lilac plumes which have 

 a rich opalescent lustre; hind neck umber-brown : cheeks- pale buffy-white with broiva edges to all the 

 feathers; throat buff, with blackish-brown edges to the feathers; centre of the chest, breast, and 

 abdomen, pale creamy-buff, becoming paler on the sides, which are crossed with dusky broirn transverse 

 bars: tinder tail coverts pale taivny-buff, each feather margined with pale creamy-buff and crossed 

 with two narrow blackish-brown bars; bill blackish brown slightly tinged with olive; legs olive-green, 

 the feet darker; iris broirn. Total length in the ffesh, 12 inches, wing -JS, tail J^2o, bill 0-9, 

 tarsus l-'i. 



Adult female — Similar in plumaye to the male, but destitute of the rose-lilac plumes on tlie 

 nape, ivhich is like the head. 



Distribnlion. — Oueenshmd. Xew South Wales, \'ictoria. South .\ustralia. 



^^HE Spotted Bower-bird is essentially an inhabitant of the inland portions of Queens- 

 land, New South Wales, and \'ictoria, its range in the former State extending 

 nearer to the coast, specimens having been obtained by Mr. George Masters at Gayndah 

 in 1863. It is more abundantly distributed in the western and north-western districts of 

 New South Wales, and is equally numerous in the adjoining portions of South-western 

 Queensland. At Sandy Creek, near Cobar, these birds are fairly plentiful; and further west, 

 for the last quarter of a century, Mr. James Ramsay, at Louth, Wilgaroon, and Tyndarie, has 



