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laid for a sitting ; I have, however, found at different periods over two dozen nests with a 

 single egg in each, and nearly always incubated." 



The eggs received from ]Mr. Olive have the fine linear markings on the ground colour 

 more sparingly distributed, and intermingled with bold blotches and conspicuous irregular- 

 shaped dashes and streaks of dark umber-brown, and similar underlying markings of dull 

 violet-grey: — Length (A) fSj x i-i inches; (B) i-6x roy inches. 



Chlamydodera cerviniYentris. 



FAWX-BREASTED BOWER-BIRD. 

 Chlamydera cerviniventris, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 18.50, p. 201 ; i'L, Bds. Austr., fol, Suppl., 



pi. 36 (1869). 

 Chlamydodera cerviniventris, Gould, Handbk. BJs. Austr., Vol. I , p. 4-54 ; Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. 



Mus., Vol. VI., p. 39.3 (1881); Salvad., Orn. Pap. et Molucc, pt. II., p. G64 (1881). 



Adult m.\le — General colour above brown, with an ashy shade; all the feathers o/ the back 

 and scapulars having narrow shaft-lines and a small spot at the tip of huffy-white, these streaks and 

 tips being slightly larger and darker on the rtimp and upper tail-coverts ; lesser and median tcing- 

 coverts like the back, the greater and primary coverts more largely tipped with white ; primaries and 

 secondaries brown, externally rvashed icithpale greyish-broivn, being more conspicuous on the secondaries, 

 which are tipped tvith 7i:hite ; tail feathers brown, narrowly margined tvith pale greijish-brown and 

 tipped with while ; head ashy-brown, all the feathers of the face streaked with fulvous white, these 

 streaks becoming broader and darker on the sides of the head, and passing into pale fawn-buff on 

 the feathers of the throat, which are narrowly edged with brown; lower neck and chest fawn-buff, 

 thfi feathers in the centre edged, and those on the sides broadly margined with hroivn ; remainder 

 of the under-surface, and under tail, and tmder wing coverts clear fatvn colour; bill blackish brown ; 

 legs and feet grey; iris reddish-brown. Total length Vi-5 inches, wing (J, tail 4'S, bill OS, 

 tarsus IGo. 



Adult fem.\le — Similar in plumage to the adult male. 



Distribution. — Cape York Peninsula, New Guinea, Louisiade Archipelago. 



^~|(^HE male of the Fawn-breasted Bower-bird may be distinguished from those of all other 

 J- species of the genus by the absence of the beautiful rose-lilac frill on the nape. This 

 species was one of the novelties secured by the late Mr. John MacGillivray at Cape York, during 

 the stay there of Her Majesty's surveying ship "Rattlesnake," in October, 1848. In the same 

 locality Mr. J. A. Thorpe, during a seventeen months' residence there in 1867-8, succeeded in 

 obtaining several specimens and found two of their bowers. In 1875 both D'Albertis and Mr. 

 George Masters obtained specimens at Hall Sound, to the north-w^est of Port ^loresby, New 

 Guinea, and the late Mr. A. Goldie procured its eggs at Milne Bay. Since that time it has been 

 found by many collectors in that large island, teeming with a rich and varied avifauna. I\Ir. 

 DeVis" has also recorded it from Sudest Island, in the Louisiade Archipelago, from a male 

 obtained there by Sir William MacGregor on the 30th June, i8gi. In Australia I have never 

 seen a specimen from any place but the extreme northern portion of the Cape York Peninsula, 

 but in the "Catalogue of Birds in the British IMuseum,"! the locality of a specimen in the Gould 

 Collection is there given as "Rockingham Bay." Count Salvadori; and Dr. Sharpe j both 



• Ann. Queensl. Mus., No. 2, p. 9 (1892). 



t Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. vi., p. 394 (1881). 



J Orn. Pap. et Molucc. Vol, ii., p. 665 (1881). 



§ Mon. Paradis. and Ptilonc, Vol. ii , p 62 (1898), 



