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wavy line-like markings of amber and light slate. The 

 majority of the markings take a latitudinal direction, crossing 

 and recrossing each other, while some of the heavier lines 

 take longitudinal or various directions. There are also a few 

 fancifully-shaped dark blotches here and there over the shell. 



Dimensions in inches of odd examples: — (1) l*68xl'12; 

 (2) 1*57 X 1*16. Of a clutch much marked all over, including 

 both ends, with extraordinary hair-like lines : — (1) 1-52 x 112; 

 (2) 1-54 X 1-1. 



Ohservations. — This very fine species inhabits Northern 

 Queensland, probably extending its range into the Northern 

 Territory. It would, indeed, be interesting to learn, as 

 Mr North remarks, where the eastern and north-western 

 races — G. orientalis and C. nuchalis — meet. 



Mr Kendall Broadbent obtained the Queensland Bower- 

 Bird during September at Herbert Vale. He also met with 

 it at the Herbert Gorge, and although he found this bird at 

 Bowen and near Townsville, it is in the Gulf of Carpentaria 

 district that seemed to Mr Broadbent to be the bird's true 

 home, and nowhere did he meet it more plentiful than at the 

 mouth of the Norman Kiver. It was at this river that Mr 

 Broadbent collected the interesting group of birds and bower 

 which may be seen in the National Museum, Melbourne. 



The following original notes I have received from Mr Ed. 

 Cornwall, Burdekin Kiver district, relative to this Bower- 

 Bircl : — " I think I have discovered a new trait in the 

 character of the Queensland Bower-Bird. They are very 

 plentiful about Koseneath Garden, and are very destructive 

 to the crops ; chillies, paw-paws, granadillas, guavas, mangoes, 

 peas — in fact, every description of fruit suffers to a greater or 

 less extent from their depredations. But their last object of 

 attack proves them to be not entirely vegetarians, unless 

 new-laid eggs be called diet for non-eaters of flesh ! This is 

 not mere supposition, but hard fact, for after noticing the 

 disappearance of eggs in a most unaccountable manner for 

 some time, the gardener kept watch, and was rewarded by 

 seeing Mr Bower-Bird fly straight to a nest vacated by a fowl, 

 and deliberately devour its contents. This may not be a re- 

 markable incident, but to me it certainly appeared strange." 



