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Jackson J Haunts of the Spotted Bower-Bird. 



[Emu 

 isl Oct. 



up some candle droppings from the floor, eyeing me the while. They 

 seem to eat a variety of things, and are tame about the camp, (hough 

 shy and wary in the bush. My eyes are very sore from the Barcoo 

 flies. Saw a " bush tragedy " — the dried carcass of an Emu hanging 

 from a fence by one leg, which had caught and become twisted in 

 the wires. 



2oth December. — Crimson-winged Lories plentiful, and teeding on 

 the seed of the leopard-woods. Saw Bower-Birds flying low down 

 again to-day, keeping only a few feet from the ground. 



PLATE XVI. 



Nest and Eggs of Spotted Bower-Bird. 



PHOTO. BY S. W, JACKSON 



215/ Derember. — Went a long distance northwards towards the 

 Queensland border fence, into the extreme north-west corner of 

 Cambo Cambo property, and where it joins and meets Goondoobluie 

 and Burrenbah stations. Here I found a new and handsome bower 

 (No. 9), placed under the shade of a native red currant bush (Exocarpus 

 aphylla, R. Br.) ^Plates XVII., XVIII.) Bird seen leaving play-ground. 

 Much decoration, l>ul chiefly bleached sheep-bones, also a number of 

 Emu toe-bones. Other objects were two pieces bleached white Emu egg- 

 shell, various seed-pods and berries, few pieces of glass, several heart- 

 shaped berries {Pitiosporum phillyroides, Dl.), &c. In the passage- 



