CHLAMYDODERA ORIENTALIS, Gould. 
Queensland Bower-bird. 
Chlamydodera nuchalis (part.), Ramsay, Proc, Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 385. — Id. Proc. Linnean Soc, of New S. Wales, 
ii. p. 188. 
Chlamydodera orienfalis, Gould, Ann. & Mag. of Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. iv. p. 74. 
In the ‘ Annals of Natural History ’ for July 1879 I described a new species of Bower-bird, and made some 
remarks on the Chlamydoderee, proposing the name of Chlamydodera orientalis for the new species. I have 
now the pleasure of giving figures which will enable the reader to distinguish the western Bower-hird from 
the eastern. Putting aside the very distinct Cat bird (Allluroedus), Regent bird {^Sericidu^^ the Satin 
Bower-bird {Ptilonoi’hynchis'), each of which is easily recognizable by structural characters as well as 
a particular style of plumage, Ave come to the members of the genus Chlamydodera, containing the “ spotted ” 
Bower-birds, the most characteristic species of which are C. maculata, C. guttata, and C, occipitalis ; these 
ha\"e each the plumage on the upper surface thickly ocellated, as well as beautiful lilac frills on the back of 
the neck. Chlamydodera cermniventris has not the beautiful frilled nape of the above-named species. In 
C. orientalis the tendency to a spotted plumage becomes less marked, and still less so in the larger C. 
nuchalis, in this respect leading off, as it were, tOAvards the uniformly coloured species of New Guinea (the 
Amhlyorms inornatus, or Garden Bower-bird, figured in the present work). 
Mr. Ramsay has recorded a large Bower-bird from Queensland, hut considered it similar to the great 
bird from Western Australia, C. nuchalis, which has been for many years called by that name. 
In size the present bird is somewhat- less than C. nuchalis, and differs from that species in the light 
edgings to the feathers of the head and upper surface, and especially on the wings, all these parts having 
somewhat of a banded appearance, Avhich is not so visible as in the species from Western Australia. This 
species was lately brought to England by Mr. Waller, and is now, as well as its bower, in the fine collection 
at Liverpool. Both species are represented in the British Museum, as well as in my own collection, where 
the specimens can be consulted by any student avIio wishes to verify the differences between them. 
The figure in the accompanying Plate is about the size of life, and is drawn from a specimen in my 
collection. 
