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the body and wings are of a large size, accordant in fact with 

 the increased size of the feathers ; the spots on the tips of the 

 wing-feathers are not so round as those on the back ; the 

 primaries are very pale brown, fading into white on the basal 

 portion of their inner webs, which is yellow on their under 

 surface; their shafts straw-yellow ; these feathers are much 

 worn, and are doubtless tipped with white in fresh moulted 

 specimens ; tail-feathers pale brown, with buff shafts and 

 white tips ; throat-feathers brown at the base, with an arrow- 

 head-shaped mark of pale buff at the tip of each, the buff tips 

 becoming much larger on the chest ; centre of the abdomen 

 pale buff"; flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts buff, barred 

 with light brown ; bill black ; gape rich yellow ; feet appa- 

 rently very dark olive. 



Total length 11^ inches ; bill 1 J ; wing 6 ; tail 4J- ; tarsi If. 



Sp. 281. CHLAMYDODERA CERVINIVENTRIS, Gould. 



Fawn-breasted Bower-bird. 

 Chlamydera cerviniventris, Gould in Proc.of Zool. Soc, part xviii. p. 201 . 



Chlamydera cerviniventris, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, Supple- 

 ment, pi. 



The discovery of the present species is due Mr. MacgilUvray, 

 who procured a specimen at Cape York, which with its curious 

 bower he transmitted to the British Museum. Other ex- 

 amples have since been procured, but none are adorned with 

 the lovely frill of liliaceous feathers at the nape of the neck 

 although I believe some of them are very old birds. In size 

 this species is rather larger than C. maculata, or almost inter- 

 mediate between that species and C. mic/ialis ; its distinguish- 

 ing feature is its rich, uniformly-coloured, buff under surface. 

 Its bower differs from those of the other species; its walls, 

 which are very thick, being nearly upright, or but little 

 inclining towards each other at the top, so that the passage 

 through is very narrow ; it is formed of fine twigs, is placed 



