50 BOWER-BIRD 
radiating from the central support, which is covered with a conical 
mass of moss, and sheltering a gallery round it. One side of this 
hut is left open, and in front of it is arranged a bed of verdant 
moss, bedecked with blossoms and _ berries of the brightest colours. 
As these ornaments wither they are removed to a heap behind 
the hut, and replaced by others that are fresh. The hut is 
circular, and some three feet in diameter, and the mossy lawn in 
‘*GARDEN” OF AMBLYORNIS. 
(After Beecari. From The Gardeners Chronicle, N.S., vol. ix. p. 333.) 
front of it of nearly twice that expanse. Each hut and garden are, 
it is believed, though not known, the work of a single pair of 
birds, or perhaps of the male only ; and it may be observed that 
this species, as its trivial name implies, is wholly inornate in 
plumage.t Not less remarkable is the more recently described 
1 Another species referred to the same genus, 4. subalaris, the female of 
which was originally described by Mr. Sharpe (Jowrn. Linn. Soc. xvil. p. 40) 
as being still more dingy, turned out to have the male embellished with a 
wonderful crest of reddish-orange (Finsch and Meyer, Zeitschr. f. ges. Orn. 1885, 
p. 890, tab. xxii.). 
