63. CHLAMYDODERA. 393 



5. Chlamydodera cerviniventris. 



Clilamydera cerviniventris, Gould, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 201 ; Macc/ill. 

 Vol/. 'Eattlesnalie; ii. p. 357 (1852) ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 104; 

 id. Cat. B. JVew Guinea, p. 59 (1859) ; Gould, B. Austr., Suppl. 

 pi. 36 (1859) ; Gray, Haitd-l. B. i. p. 294, no. 4342 (1869; ; 

 Diggles, Orn. Austr. pi. fig'. 2. 



Chlamydodera cei-yiniventris, Goidd, Handh. B. Austr. i. p. 454 

 (18(i5); Elliot, Monof/r. Farad, pi. xxxii. (1873); Salvad. ^• 

 U Albert. Ann. Mus. 'Civic. Genov. vii. p. 828 (1875), viii. p. 39 

 (1876), ix. p. 193 (1876); Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Sac. xiii. p. 82 

 (187G) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. iV. S. W. i. p. 393 (1876) ; 

 Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. p. 495 (1877) ; id. torn. cit. p. 687 

 (1879) ; Eamsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. JV. S. W. ii. p. 188 (1877), iii.' 

 p. 102 (1878), p. 268 (1879), iv. p. 97 (1879) ; D' Albert. Nuova 

 Guinea, pp. 237, 584 (1 880) ; Salvad. Orn. d. Pajmasia, p. 664 (1881). 



Ptilorhynchus cerviniventris, Giebel, Thes. Orn. i. p. 657 (1872). 



Adult. Above brown, all the feathers edged with ashy, giving a 

 greyish shade to the upper parts, nearly uniform on the hind neck ; 

 crown of head, feathers above the eyes, and lores thickly but 

 minutely dotted with triangular spots of bufty white ; the whole of 

 the back, scapulars, and wing-coverts distinctly streaked down the 

 shaft with buffy white, dilating into a triangular spot at the tip, all 

 the apical markings much larger and whiter on the wing-coverts, 

 the primary-coverts edged with whitish near the tip ; quills brown, 

 externally washed with greyish, the secondaries tipped with white, 

 forming a largo spot at the tip of the innermost ; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts streaked like the back, but slightly more tinged with 

 fulvous ; tail-feathers brown, washed with greyish along the edge 

 of the outer webs and tipped with white ; entire sides of face and 

 throat ashy brown, thickly streaked everywhere with light fawn- 

 buff, all the feathers being mesially streaked with this colour ; 

 chest fawn-buff, mottled with ashy brown, with which colour the 

 feathers are edged and slightly barred ; aU the rest of the under 

 surface of the body clear fawn-colour, the flanks indistinctly mottled 

 with indications of ashy-brown bars ; sides of the upper breast 

 brown, broadly streaked down the centre with fulvous ; under wing- 

 covcrts fawn, like the underparts, the outermost of the greater 

 series <ishy brown, with pale fulvous bases, the lower surface of the 

 quills light brown, edged with pale fulvous along the inner web ; 

 bill black ; logs grev ; iris black. Total length 11-3 inches, culmen 

 1-1, wing 5-65, tail' 4-91, tarsus 1-7. 



Ohs. These birds vary a good deal, the spotting on the back being 

 much less in some than in others ; those which have it less deve- 

 loped have nearly the entire head and neck uniform, only the fore 

 part of tlie crown being spotted. AVhcther these ar younger birds 

 I am unable to say. 



The Fawti-bieasted Bower-bird inhabits the Cape York Peninsula 

 and the islands of Torres Straits, as well as South-eastern iSTew 

 Guinea in the neighbourhood of Port Moresby. 



a. Ad. sk. Cape York. .T. Macgillivray, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 



