78 Mr. T. Carter on some [Ibis, 



off: some busb. A careful search in the vicinity failed to 

 find any bowers or playgrounds, and none were seen either 

 in tliat gully, which we followed to its head, or any of 

 the other numerous ones that were examined on that and 

 following days. 



On the 7th of August I walked out to the place where 

 the birds had been obtained, and took photograplis of it, 

 and the tree with the two nests ; but the prints obtained, 

 and also the negatives, were lost with the bulk of my 

 luggage on the s.S. ' Medina,' when she was torpedoed in 

 the English Channel in April 1917. I then again searched 

 all the likely gullies in the vicinity, but only saw one 

 Bower-bird, that was shot when feeding in a clump of 

 fig-trees. I was out again the next day, but tramped many 

 miles on the rugged ranges without any results, except 

 seeing a single Bower-bird fly from a clump of fig-trees 

 some distance from me. 



On the 9th of August Mr. Campbell drove me some miles 

 in order to search fresh ground, and after examining several 

 likely-looking places, the female bird that was figured (Ibis, 

 1920, pi. xiv.) w^as obtained. Two others were seen to fly from 

 a large mass of fig-trees, near where we were having our 

 lunch, and a single bird from other fig-trees, when returning 

 in the afternoon. Apparently these birds feed largely on 

 wild figs. Their flight is straight, with rapid strokes of the 

 wings, and resembles that of Magpies [Gymnorldna) ; they 

 look large when flying. Whitlock, in his paper " On the 

 East Murchison," Emu, vol. ix. ji. 218, says of Chlamydera 

 m. subguttata that the nuchal band is much smaller in the 

 female bird than in the male. This is certainly not always 

 the case with C. m. nova. The nuchal bands of all the birds 

 obtained by me are mostly of a vivid pink colour, but they 

 all contain a few bluish-purple feathers scattered in with the 

 pink ones. I also noticed that the markings which ajjpear 

 to be black on the edges of the tawny spots on the crown of 

 the head, show a distinct green when held at a certain angle. 

 The North- West Cape is about 480 miles north-west of the 

 locality where Mr. Whitlock obtained his birds. 



