452 BIRDS OP AUSTRALIA. 



cup-shape, constructed of dried sticks with a slight Uning of 

 feathers and fine grass. The eggs are still unknown. 



Crown of the head, ear-coverts, and throat rich brown, each 

 feather surrounded with a narrow line of black ; feathers on 

 the crown small, and tipped with silvery grey ; a beautiful 

 band of elongated feathers of light rose-pink crosses the back 

 of the neck, forming a broad, fan-like, occipital crest ; all the 

 upper surface, wings, and tail of a deep brown ; every feather of 

 the back, rump, scapularies, and secondaries tipped with a large 

 round spot of rich buff; primaries slightly tipped with white ; 

 all the tail-feathers terminated with buffy white ; under sur- 

 face greyish white ; feathers of the flanks marked with faint, 

 transverse, zigzag lines of light brown ; bill and feet dusky 

 brown ; irides dark brown ; bare skin at the corner of the 

 mouth thick, fleshy, prominent, and of a pinky flesh-colour. 



I am in some doubt as to whether the female ever acquires 

 the lilaceous mark at the back of the neck : for the first and 

 perhaps the second year, she is certainly without it. 



Total length 11^ inches ; bill 1 J ; wing 6 ; tail 4| ; tarsi 1 



Sp. 280. CHLAMYDODERA GUTTATA, Gould. 



GUTTATED BOWER-BIRD. 

 Chlamydera guttata, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, 1862, p. 161. 



I am indebted to the researches of T. F. Gregory, Esq., the 

 West Australian explorer, for a knowledge of this new species. 

 It was collected in North-western Australia, and is doubtless 

 the bird which constructs the bowers described by Captain 

 (now Sir George) Gray in his " Travels," vol. i. pp. 196 and 

 245, where he states, that on gaining the summit of one of 

 the sandstone-ranges forming the watershed of the streams 

 flowing into the Glenelg and Prince Regent's Rivers, "We 

 fell in with a very remarkable nest, or what appeared to me 

 to be such. We had previously seen several of them, and they 

 had always afforded us food for conjecture as to the agent 



