Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family PTILONORHYNCHIDM. 
No. 736. 
PRIONODURA NEWTONIANA. 
GOLDEN BOWER-BIRD. 
(Plate 589.) 
Prionodtjra NEWTONIANA De Vis, Proc. Linn, Soc. N.S.W., Vol. VII., p. 562, April 1883: 
TuUy River Scrubs, North Queensland. 
Prionodura ncwioniana De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. VTI., p. 562, 1883; Ramsay, 
Tab. list Austr. Birds, p. 11, 1888 ; Be Vis, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, Vol. VI., 
p. 245, 1889 ; Sharpe, Mon. Birds Paradis., pt. i., pi. 7 (Vol. 2, pi. 24), 1891; Hall, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 9, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol L, 
p. 212, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. L, p. 65, 1902; Mathews. 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 106, 1908 ; North, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. XXXIIL, 
p, 799, 1909 ; Jackson, Emu, Vol. VIII., pp. 225-233, 260, and pis. xxvrn. and 
XXIX., 1909; Mathew’S, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 441, 1912; id., List Birds 
Austr.. p. 312, 1913 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. IV., p. 413, 1914. 
Corymhicola viestoni De Vis in the “ Curier,” Brisbane, Queensland, 1889 (Oct, 4th), 
Bellenden Ker (5,000 ft.); Meston, Rep. Gov. Sci. Exped. Bellenden-Ker Range. 
N.E. Queensland, 1889 (after Oct. 7th), p. 120. 
Prionodura newtoniana fairfaxi Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. II., pt. 7, p. 133, 
Jan. 28th, 1915: Bartlefrere, Queensland (3,800 feet up). 
Distribution. North Queensland. 
Adult 'tnale. Feathers covering the nostrils golden-orange; chin, sides of the face, loros, 
top of the head and lower part of the head rich golden-ohve ; a large patch of 
golden-orange feathers on the crown ; back of the neck sliining golden-orange; 
mantle, back, rump, upper tail-coverts and wing-coverts golden-olive; middle 
pair of tail-feathers brownish-olive, the three outermost pairs of tail-feathers 
unifonn golden-orange, the fourth and fifth pairs tipped and margined with brownish- 
olive ; entire under-surface of body beautiful golden-orange, brightest on the chest 
and dullest on the sides of the body ; primaries olive, margined on the outer web 
with golden-bronze and on the iimer web with pale yellow ; under wing-coverts 
and axillaries orange. Total length 250 mm. ; culmen 15, wing 122, tail 113, 
tarsus 30. Figured. Collected on Moimt Bartlefrere (3,800 feet). North Queens¬ 
land, on the 17th of April, 1909, and is P, n. fairfaxi. It is not so reddish-yellow 
on the under-surface as the typical bird from the Tully River. 
Adult female. Entire upper-surface of the body dull olive, slightly paler on the rump 
and upper tail-coverts ; tail slighter brighter olive with glistening brown shaft- 
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