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THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA 



entrance of the avenue, the arrangement being the same at both 

 ends. In some of the larger bowers, which had evidently been 

 resorted to for many years, I have seen half a bushel of bones, 

 shells, &c., at each of the entrances. I frequently found these 



Australian 'Museum. 

 Spotted Bower -bird: Chlamydodera maculata. 



structures at a considerable distance from the rivers, from the 

 borders of which they could alone have procured the shells and 

 small round pebbly stones; their collection and transportation 

 must therefore be a task of great labour. I fully ascertained that 

 these runs, like those of the Satin Bower-birds, formed the 

 rendezvous of many individuals." This is Gould's classical 



