382 Dr. Colin C. Simson on the Habits of 
I send a second photograph (text-fig. 27), as, although 
imperfect and only shewing indistinctly the two openings 
with the flower-bed between them in the background, it has 
a typical enclosed yard in the foreground. 
Text-fig. 27, 
Playground of a Bower-bird (Amblyornis). 
In some of the playgrounds the contents of the garden 
were arranged ina definite order. In one there were yellow 
flowers on one side and blue berries on the other. It is very 
common to see a mass of scarlet fruits in a rotting condition 
lying a yard or two from the playground, where they have 
been thrown by the birds. 
