196 A DICTIONARY OF BIRDS. 
The account of these curious birds which may be most con¬ 
veniently consulted is that in Gould’s ‘ Handbook to the Birds of 
Australia ’ (i. pp. 441-461), published in 1865 ; but since that time 
discoveries still more wonderful have been made. A bird of New 
Guinea, originally referred to the genus Ptilorhynchus , but now 
recognised as Amblyomis inornatus, has been found by Sign. Beccari 
to present not only a modification of bower-building, but an appre¬ 
ciation of beauty perhaps unparalleled in the animal world. His 
“ Garden ” of Amblyornis. 
(After Beccari. From The Gardeners' Chronicle , N.S., vol. ix., p. 333.) 
interesting observations (‘ Annali del Mus. Civ. de Storia Nat. di 
Genova,’ ix. pp. 382-400, tav. viii.) show that this species, which 
he not inaptly calls the ‘ Gardener ’ [Gjardinieres, builds at the foot 
of a small tree a kind of hut or cabin (cap anna ) some two feet in 
height, roofed with orchid-stems that slope to the ground, regularly 
September, 1893 
