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Subsequently Mr. Keartland informed me that four nests were found by Mr. J. P. Rogers in 

 the gorges of the'orant Ranges, near Upper Lyvermga Station, but only one contained an egg. 

 This n^st was built in a Bauhima tree, about a foot from the ground. Another nest, found by 

 Mr. E. J. Harris on the 6th November. lyoo, near Xobby's Well, Fitzroy River, was also built in a 

 Bauhinia tree, at a height of six'feet from the ground, and eontained-a single egg, which is now 

 in Mr Keartland's collection. The breeding-time, it has since been ascertained, depends upon 

 the season-being mfluenced by the ramfall ; nests having been found from September to 

 December. 



Regarding this species, ^Ir. E. OliNe has kindly supplied me with the following notes:— 

 '^Chlamydodn-a mtchalis is plentiful in the neighbourhood of the Katherine River, in the 

 Northern Territory of South Australia. I have seen between twenty and thirty feeding m a 

 tree at the same time. Thev are shv vet incjuisitix e. and often would they hop on the ground 

 or branches to within a yard or two of me if 1 kept quiet, (".enerally their bowers are built 











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under the shade of trees, or under small shrubs, out in the open, and near dead timber. At one 

 place where these birds were common there were sexen bowers within a space of fifty yards 

 square, and one getting built which I watched from start to finish. Of the eight, there were only 

 three of them in use; the others were old, although they looked as good as the new ones. 1 he 

 foundation of the new bower was made of sticks laid on the ground almost parallel to one 

 another, to the thickness of about an inch, and then the sticks to form the walls of the bower 

 were inserted in the crevices. The outer measurements of this bower were, roughly, eighteen 

 inches in length and fourteen inches in breadth ; across the inside it measured six inches at its 

 widest part. The decorations were quartz crystals, land shells, and fruit. At another bower I 

 found a revolver-cartridge, with a bullet in it, and some pieces of broken insulator caps I care- 

 fully looked among the articles collected for nuggets of gold, as the birds would pick them up if 

 there were any about. One bower was arched right over, being different to any I have ever seen. 



