Monee THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 
Data Campbell's No. of 
No. ook. Eggs. 
We were successful in finding five of their bowers or ‘ play-houses,” which are a great deal smaller 
than those of the Satin Bower Bird, the sticks being placed more upright, and do not droop over so 
much at the tops as in those of the latter birds. One bower, in the scrub across Unio Creek, was 
nearly always frequented by the birds as we passed, and we spent several hours watching them tossing 
snail shells and highly coloured berries and flowers over their backs, and then running in and out of 
the bower, and re-arranging them in it. Every time we halted to examine this play ground they would 
have a fresh supply of snail shells, berries (red, yellow, green and blue), and highly coloured leaves and 
NEST AND EGGS OF THE REGENT BOWER BIRD. 
(Nearly four-fifths of the natural size.) 
Loc., Booyong Scrubs, Richmond River, N.S.W. 
(See data No. 552.) 
flowers arrayed. One morning I found in it a fresh yellow blossom ot a very disagreeable aroma, 
belonging to a ground creeping plant (A/ibbertia volubilus) which only grows in the bush adjacent to the 
sea shores, and to get this the bird must have travelled nearly 26 miles, as Booyong is 13 miles from 
the sea as the crow flies. This just shows the amount of hunting and the distances these birds travel 
in order to secure some highly coloured object for the zesthetical decoration of their happy play grounds 
or bowers. During my last visit to this bower, I counted no less than 53 snail shells, which comprised 
the following nine species, most of which are only found in the scrubs of the Richmond River district, 
viz., Helix confusa, H. Stvangei, H. Frasevi, H. Porteri, H. mansueta, H. pudibunda, H. Falconari (young), 
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