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brown, the chin and upper part of the throat deep brown, 

 and the lower part whitish spotted with rufous. A lovely 

 metallic breast-plate of bronze-green and violet feathers Avith 

 dark middles covers the chest, and the long flank-feathers are 

 white. The two outer flight-feathers are curiously attenu- 

 ated 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.laivesi from British New Guinea, males of which have 

 been living for soine years in the Zoological Society^s 

 Gardens, Regent's Park. 



Another very liandsome species is the Golden-winged 

 DlphyUodes chrysoptera. The male has the bill and a bare 

 s])ace 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 

 rather long brown-tipped plumes; the mantle is light golden- 

 yellow like 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 blacls on the upper tail-coverts. The throat is deep 

 velvety brown, the neck and breast rich dark green boi'dered 

 below with metallic bluish-green, and Avith 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 

 metallic-bluish-green. The female is very soberly clad, 

 dull brown above and narrowly barred with browu and buff 

 below. 



The Bower-Birds iiave received their name from their 

 peculiar habit of constructing bowers or runs where the 

 males meet to play or to 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, 



