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white. The two outer flight feathers are curiously 

 attenuated near the extremity and terminate in a sharp 

 point, the shaft bearing only a very narrow web. No 

 doubt all these ornaments are displayed in a similar 

 manner to those of P. lawcsi from British New Guinea, 

 males of which have been living for some years in the 

 Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park. 



Another very handsome species is the Golden-winged 

 Diphyllodes chrysopteya. The male has the bill and a 

 bare space behind the eye bluish-white, the inside of the 

 mouth apple -green and the feet Prussian blue. The 

 head is clad in short velvety reddish-brown feathers with 

 two metallic green spots between the eyes ; the nape 

 bears a frill of lengthened brown-tipped plumes; the 

 mantle is hght golden-yellow hke spun glass and forms 

 a lengthened tippet ; the inner secondary quills and 

 shoulder-feathers are orange-yellow, and the back 

 carmine and dull orange shading into sooty black on the 

 upper tail- coverts. The throat is deep velvety brown, 

 the neck and breast rich dark green bordered below 

 with metallic bluish-green, and with a row of metallic 

 green bars like steps down the middle of the neck and 

 chest ; the rest of the under-parts are black. The short 

 outer tail-feathers are sooty brown, while the middle pair 

 which cross one another are very long and narrow and 

 of a metahic bluish-green. The female is very soberly 

 clad, dull brown above and narrowly barred with brown 

 and buff below. 



The Bower-Birds have received their name from their 

 peculiar habit of constructing bowers or runs where the 

 males meet to play or pay their court to the females. 

 The bowers are built long before the birds begin to build 

 their nests which are placed in trees. 



One of the most noteworthy species procured by the 

 Expedition was the gorgeously coloured Bower-Bird, 

 Xanthomelus ardens. The male has the eye yellow and 



