Cu. 
Ap - XIII. 
LOVE-ANTICS. 
69 
‘ CY 
s ° 0Tln( 3 ; ” lie repeats this manoeuvre several times 
ton eSSIVel y> a t the same time humming in a peculiar 
“ s .l females as happen to he near “ obey this 
t r a tory summons,” and when they approach lie 
4V“ S W]n S s au d spreads his tail like a turkey- 
e tlie most curious case is afforded by three allied 
, Cla °f Australian birds, the famous Bower-birds, 
^^loubt the co-descendants of some ancient species 
acquired the strange instinct of constructing 
first 
°°Wers 
for performing their love-antics. The bowers 
46), 
r 'i' 01 a f et t with feathers, 
“mlt ( 
f °r tlr 
hich, as we shall hereafter see, are highly 
shells, bones and leaves, are 
°a the ground for the sole purpose of courtship, 
in tl eir 1K: ' S * H are formed in trees. Both sexes assist 
civj. l' 6 erect ion of the bowers, but the male is the prin- 
Workman. So strong is this instinct that it is 
Strange has 
noised under 
described 69 the 
confinement, and Mr 
me habits of some Satin Bower -birds, 
“ de kept in his aviary in New South Wales. “At 
a . es die male will chase the female all over the 
or ^ iGn 8 ° t0 die bower, pick up a gay feather 
^1' large leaf, utter a curious kind of note, set all 
so ea ~* eis erect, run round the bower and become 
k; s eXcite d that his eyes appear ready to start from 
th . lCa< ’ he continues opening first one wing, and 
11 die other, uttering a low, whistling note, and, 
For 
elrno phasianollus, see Richardson, ‘Fauna Bor. America,’ 
Ibis,’ 18G3, p. 125. 
Biography,’ vol. ii. 
361 nn.1 r 1 ‘ 11 iJ 1 c-v. j ... , iau 
* 0r tb e ;f r farther particulars Capt. Blalciston, ‘ 
t - atifi a , am ' Ardoa, Audubon, ‘Oruitk. uiugrapuy, vui. 
Uj . }°r P- 89. On the White-throat, Macgillivray, ‘Hist. 
°f India ’ ' , 8 ’ V °F ii- p. 354. On the Indian Bustard, Jerdon, ‘ Birds 
59 Boul f iiL P- 618. 
f he bower' .^ an( ibook to the Birds of Australia,’ vol. i. p. 444, 449, 455. 
bgicai Q, r °* *be Satin Bower-bird may always be seen in the Zoolo- 
’ Miety’s Gardens, Regent’s Park. 
