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orchid. Several times I removed pieces of moss, which is of one 

 kind only, and hung them on shrubs close by, and then drew into 

 concealment and watched, and each time the birds showed every 

 kind of resentment at my actions, and they were quickly 

 replaced by one of them on the stick across the bower and close 

 to the lower wall. At the larger bowers only the males assembled, 

 and rarely a female, doubtless being engaged in the duties of 

 incubation or tending their young. My blackboys informed me 

 that these birds bathed every day before assembling in the bower. 



"Victorian Naturalist." A. J. North. 



Nest and Eggs of Newton's Bower-bird. 



which was always about mid-day. The female builds a bower 

 for herself, generally about twenty yards away from the one at 

 which the males assemble. It is in every respect similar to that 

 constructed by the male, but is much smaller, not being half the 

 size. ' ' 



The nest, as described by Mr. Sharp, is an open cup-shaped 

 structure, formed externally of dead leaves and portions of 

 leaves, including fragments of stag-horn ferns and a small 

 quantity of dry mosses, and is lined inside at the bottom with 

 thin dead twigs. It is built in clefts or holes in the trunks, or in 



