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Gould ascertained that these runs formed the rendezvous of 
several individuals ; for^ by carefully watching, he killed two 
males, which he had previously seen running through the 
avenue. This bird is an inhabitant of the interior of the 
country, and derives its generic name, Clilamydera, from the 
beautiful band of lengthened rose-pink feathers which cross 
the back of the neck, and form a broad fan-like crest. Mr. 
John Macgillivray, when naturalist of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, 
discovered the bower of another species at Cape York"^, and 
sent it to the British Museum. It was four feet long and 
eighteen inches high, and had some fresh berries lying upon 
it, and was situated on the border of a thicket. Having 
landed with a board to get this bower, he watched its wary 
constructor for some time, and at length got some glimpses 
of it. He saw the bird enter the bower, and firing through 
the twigs killed it. Mr. Gould described the bird as a new 
species (C cerviniventris). Plate XI. fig. 2 shows this bird 
and its bower. 
The satin bower-bird [PtilonorJiT/nchis liolosericeui) (Plate 
XI. fig. 1, bird and bower) has been long known to natu- 
ralists. The plumage of the adult male is of a deep satiny 
blue-black, while the females and young have the upper parts 
* Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, vol. i. p. 323. 
