180 SCENOPIEDffi. 



altogether to the larger end of the egg." (North, P.L.S., N.S. W., 

 Vol. i., 2nd Series, p. 1157.) 



A set taken by Mr. John Macgillivray, at Grafton on the 

 Clarence River, on the 7th of September 1864, measures : — length 

 (A) 1-47 X 1-09 inch; (B) 1-5 x 1-09 inch. 



A set taken by Mr. James Ramsay at Tyndarie in 1879, measure 

 as follows :— length (A) 1-5 x M inch ; (B) 1-53 x 1-09 inch. 



Sah. Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay 

 District, Dawson River, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria 

 and South Australia. ^ (Ramsay.) 



CHLAMYDODERA CERVINIVENTRIS, qouU. 



Fawn-breasted Bo-wer-bird, 



Gould, Handbh. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 281, p. 454. 2Zr. ^. 



" This species is found at Cape York, the Islands of Torres 

 Straits, and in the southern portions of New Guinea. This is the 

 only known species of the genus that has not the handsome rose- 

 coloured frill on the nape of the neck. Its bower is larger than 

 that of any of the foregoing, and has the sides nearly parallel 

 with one another, with a very slight curvature at the top. It is 

 not so highly ornamented as the bowers of other members of this 

 genus. The nest is an open one, cup-shaped, and built near the 

 ground ; it is composed of twigs, pieces of bark and moss, and is 

 lined inside with grass, &o. The egg is very like that of C. 

 maculata in colour, with the same peculiar linear markings crossing 

 and recrossing each other all round ; but confined more to the 

 larger end of the egg than is usually the case in C. maculata. A 

 specimen of this egg in the Australian Museum Collection, taken 

 at Cape York, measures 1 -4 inch in length by 1 -03 inch in breadth.'' 

 (North, P.L.S., N.S.W., Vol. i., 2nd Series, p. 1160.) 



Hah. Cape York, South Coast New Guinea. (Ramsay.) 



