A FURTHER ACCOUNT OF PRIONODVRA 

 NEWTONIANA; 



By C. W. I)e VIS. 

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The genus and species so named* were founded on a single 

 -example which we are now able to recognize as a young female. — 

 Additional information respecting the bird has been supplied by 

 adults of both sexes lately obtained and ornithologists will not 

 perhaps be indifferent to it. 



The bird was first discovered by Mr. K. Broad bent in the 

 scrubs clothing the banks of the Tully River, a small river issuing 

 from an angle formed by spurs of the Coast Range on its eastern 

 aspect and entering the sea some little distance to the north of 

 Oardwell. In the Vale of the Herbert on the western side of the 

 principal spur and more immediately in the vicinity of Card well the 

 bird does not seem to occur, Mr. Broadbent having there searched 

 for it more than once without success — lat. 18 is, therefore, probably 

 its southern limit of range. — Its true habitat is now ascertained to 

 be the highlands north of the township ot Herberton, where it was 

 first observed by Mr. A. Meston in the course of a flying visit to 

 the top of Bellenden Ker. From near the summit of this mountain 

 Mr. Meston brought down the skin of a male bird, and soon after, 

 Mr. Broadbent, visiting Herberton in pursuit of the Tree-Kangaroo 

 of that district, encountered the bird frequently about seven miles 

 from town (fifty miles from the Bellender Ker), and collected a 

 rich series of examples. How far northward the bird extends its 

 range is as yet unknown. 



Prionodura is emphatically a Bower Bird. — Both its observers 

 in nature met with its bowers repeatedly and agree in representing 



* Proc. Lin. Soc. of N. S. Wales, vol. vii.— p. 582—1883. 



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