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XUP.LIXG, The Satin Bozcer Bird. 



1st July 



'I'he absence of the IJower-lHrds durini^ the latter months tnnii 

 the Dunibal Grove juni^le, the brush j^ulHes at tiarie, ami a i)atch 

 of jungle a few miles south of (iarie visited on the 25th March, 

 may be accounted for by the relative aiisence or scarcity of suit- 

 able native fruits. l*-lse\vhere, outside the jungle, many birds 

 are. however, still found in the old places, particularly about the 

 former l)ower Xo. 1. .\p])arcntly they select fur tiie breeding 





Unfinished Bower No. 7. 

 Photo, by E. Nubling. R.A.O.U. 



.-eason such localities as ])riivi(k- them with a continuous supjjly 

 of food for several months, till the liatcliing and partly the rear- 

 ing of the young are com])leted. 



24th April, blue and green Satins still about bower Xo. 1. 

 l-'otmd at Gundamain, on the saltwater jiortion of the river, ai^out 

 two miles down from Audley, bower Xo. 7. on a narrow rock- 

 ledge, some 30 feet above the water. There was i)ractically no 

 jjlatform at all, the bower being erected on a two-inch thick bed 

 of tightly-interlaced strong sticks, the outline of which coincided 

 exactly with the groundline of the bower. Two branches had 

 fallen on top of the bower, but it had stood the i)ressurc well, and 

 only a . few sticks were slightly dislocated. There were no 

 decorations. The measurements of the bower were — length. 12 

 inches; width, external 13 inches, internal at ends 5 inches, in the 

 centre 7 inches; thickness of walls, 3'j inches and 5 inche- re- 

 xjiectively. which ])eculiarity has been 'previously noted ; the aver- 



