414 THE BIEDS OF AUSTEALIA 



They are often kept in captivity, feeding almost entirely on 

 vegetation, such as carrots, and various vegetables, «fec. If 

 supplied with a bundle of suitable twigs, the male bird soon has 

 a bower made, usually in an hour or, so; the longer twigs are 

 placed in first and then the shorter ones, and the covering of the 

 floor in the run afterwards. If too much disturbed, they will 

 pull their bower to pieces and re-erect it elsewhere. A bower is 

 usually to be seen with these birds in the Melbourne Zoological 

 Gardens. 



"Victorian Naturalist." JL, j. North- 



Nest and Eggs of Tooth-billed Bower- bird. 



Genus Scenopcetes. 

 Bill higher than broad at the nostrils, with a distinct festoon 

 in the upper mandible, formed by two notches on the edge. 



The Tooth-billed Bower-bird. 



ScenopcBtes dentirostris. 



North-east Queensland. 



Above dark olive-brown; ear-eoverts and sides of neek dusky-brown 

 streaked with reddish; under sm-faces fulvous, with streaks. Total 

 length 10.5 inches, culmen 1.1, wing 5.6, tail 3.7, tarsus 1.3. 



