BOWER BIRDS. 



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ntunber reachedl tho Lomton Zoological Society's Gardens 

 in 1908. 



Green M.\nucodf, (Phonygama chalyheata) (sic). 

 It i.s stated tihat four examples of Mauucodes were 

 received beloaging to this and the preceding species, but 

 is this distinct from the Maniicodia chali/beia recorded 



as having come in the preceding collection, -when 

 eight examples came to hand ; and is it not 

 Manucodia chali/hala, of which Pliuni/ijama cliah/hciin 

 is a synonym? If so, it v.-as not received for the first 

 time in 1908, as it reached the London Gardens in 1881. 



vSatin Bower- bird 

 {riilonorhynrhus violaceui). 

 I Black glossed with Prussian blue ; bill 



.slaty-bluish, yellowish at tips ; feet ilesh- 

 culoured ; irides brilliant tran.sparent ultra- 

 marine blue, with a red circle round the 

 pupil (in certain lights the irides appear 

 reddish-brown, no blue being vifiible>. 

 Female slightly sm;iller ; above greyish-green^ 

 greener on rump and upper tail-coverts ; 

 median wing-coverts narrowly tipped with 

 whity-brown ; greater and primary coverts 

 cinnamon-brown, the former slightly green- 

 ish, the innermost and the innermost second- 

 aries with whity-brown tips ; flights smoky- 

 brown, cinnamon-brown externally ; tail 

 golden-brown, central feathers somewhat 

 ashy, lores and orbital feathers elightly 

 brownish ; ear coverts and cheeks greyish- 

 brown, with huffish shaft-stripes : throat 

 olivaceous brownish, with dull greenish edges 

 to the feathers ; remaining under-surface 

 pale greenish-yellow, the feathere with black- 

 brown loop-lines partly bounding the shafts 

 and irregular transverse arched lines towards 

 the tips ; these ai-e less distinct on the 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts, and wanting, 

 on the lower abdomen ; axillaries jjale 

 greenish, with dusky bars ; under wing- 

 coverts yellow, with dusky bars ; flights 

 below smoky-brown, witJi bright yellow 

 bases and imier webs ; bill dark horn ; feet 

 very pale greenish-yellow : irides clear ultra- 

 marine blue, the reddish ring less marked, 

 than in the male. Young birds are somewhat 

 similar to the female, but smaller, and with 

 the looped line on the feathers of the breast 

 replaced :bv a dusky diffused line, the outer 

 line also more or less diffused, the small 

 intervening area giving the bird a spotted 

 appearance. The moult to the adult plumage 

 is extremelv slow ; in my birds it occupied 

 exactly twelve months. Hab., New South 

 Wales" and through Eastern Australia to 

 Rockingham Bay and Port Denison. 



Gould observes ("Handbook of Birds of 

 Australia," Vol. I., pp. 442-444): "The 

 localities frequented by the Satin Bower- 

 bird are the luxuriant and thickly foliaged 

 brushes stretching 

 li along the coast 

 from Port Philip 

 to Moreton Bay, 



HuxsTEiN's BiKD ov r.ui.snisE. 



many specimens 1 

 dissected, it would 

 .«eem that it is 

 altogether frugivo- 

 rous. or, if not ex- 

 clusively so, that 

 insects form but a. 



