BOWER-BIRDS. 



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number reached the London Zoological Society's Gardens 

 in 1908. 



GREEN MANTTCODE (Plwnygama chalybeata) (sic), 

 It is stated tlhat four examples of Manuoodes were 

 received belonging to this and the preceding species, but 

 is this distinct from the Manucodia chalybeia recorded 



HUNSTEIN'S BIRD OF PARADISE. 



as having come in the preceding collection, when 

 eight examples came to hand ; and is it not 

 Manucodia chalybata, of which Phonygama chalybeus 

 is a synonym? If so, it was not received far the first 

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



SATIN BOWER-BIRD 

 (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus). 



Black glossed with Prussian blue; bill 

 slaty -bluish, yellowish at tips ; feet flesh- 

 coloured ; irides brilliant transparent ultra- 

 marine blue, with a red circle round the 

 pupil (in certain lights the irides appear 

 reddish-brown, no blue being visible). 

 Female slightly smaller ; 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 slightly 

 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 feathers with black- 

 brown loop-lines partly bounding the shafts 

 and irregular transverse arched lines towards 

 the tips ; these are less distinct on the 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts, and wanting 

 on the lower abdomen ; axillaries pale 

 greenish, with dusky bars ; under wing- 

 coverts yellow with dusky bars ; flights 

 below smoky-brown, with bright yellow 

 bases and inner webs ; bill dark horn ; feet 

 very pale greenish-yellow ; hides 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 toy 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 extremely 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; 

 along the coast 

 from Port Philip 

 to Moreton Bay, 

 and the cedar 

 brushes of the 

 Liverpool ranges." 

 " Judging from the 

 contents of the 

 stomachs of the 

 many specimens I 

 dissected, it would 

 seem that it is 

 altogether frugivo- 

 rous, or, if not ex- 

 clusively so, that 

 insects form but a 



