GOLDEN BOWER-BIRD. 
streaks; sides of the face and ear-coverts olive-grev with whitish shaft-streaks • 
primanes and secondanes smoky-brown on the inner web, widely margined with 
golden yellow and with the outer webs greenish-olive ; chin, throat and remainder 
of the under-surface of the body smoky-white tinged with grey, darkest on the 
sides and flanks. Eyes dirty j^ehow, legs blackish, bill black. Total length 223 mm • 
culmon 16, wing 119, tail 87. tarsus 30. Figured. Collected in the Evehm Scrub 
North Queensland, on the 6th October, 1911. " ’ 
Juwnik. Top of the head covered with long down-like feathers of a smoke-brown 
colour; upper back, mantle, lower back, rump, scapulars and wing-coverts dull 
greenish-olive; upper tail-coverts a httle brighter than the back; primaries and 
secondaries (in quill) blackish-brown, with the outer web olive; tlmoat devoid of 
feathers; remainder of the under-sm-face white, shaded with dusky, especially on 
the chest and breast. Collected in the Herberton Range, North Queensland in 
December, 1900. 
Head covered with long silk-like filaments of a smoke-brown colour; sprouting 
feathers of the back and wings dark olive ; under-parts dirty white. Collected at 
the same time and place as the other, but is much smaller. 
Eggs. Two eggs form the clutch ; sometimes only one egg is found ; no record of three 
having been taken. A clutch of two eggs taken at Evehm Scrub, on the Herberton 
Range, North Queensland, on the 28th of November, 1908, is of a verj-- pale creamy 
or warm white. Compressed ovals in shape. Surface of shell fine and smooth 
and rather glossy. 36-37 by 25-26 mm. 
Esd. An open cup-shaped structure, composed of dead leaves (some very large), thin 
strips of bark, skeleton leaves, small sticlcs, moss, etc., and lined with thin roots 
and twigs. In the construction of some nests great quantities of the sections of 
old dead and skeleton leaves of the Stag-Hom Ferns are used. The small sticks 
on the outside portion of the nest are often fastened or glued together, and to the 
structure, by means of a dead and dried-up growdh of slimy fungus. Dimensions 
over all, 6 to 7 inches or more in diameter by 3 to 4 inches in depth. The egg 
cavity measures 3^ to nearly 4 inches across by 2 to nearly 2J inches deep. The 
nest is usually placed in an opening, ledge, or hollow' portion of a tree, or such 
sheltered position in dense jungle, and often within 3 or 4 feet of the ground. 
Breeding-months. October, November and December. 
Beoadbent discovered this beautiful species and his account reads : “ This 
bird was first obtained by me in September, 1882, in the TuUy River scrubs, 
though I only secured then an immature specimen, coloured uniformly olive- 
brown upon the upper-surface. This—the type—^Mr. De Vis described. IVhilst 
pursuing my official duties at Herberton in the months of March to May, 1889, 
I met with several examples of a bird which I at once detected to be Newton’s 
BoAver-Bird, and amongst them some gaily-coloured, full-plumaged cocks, which 
instead of exhibiting the sombre hues of youth, are largety bright yeUow- 
coloured, they being, as it is said, ‘ one of the three handsomest birds in 
Australia.’ This rediscovery on my part was announced in an official communi¬ 
cation dated from Herberton, 30th March, 1888. At the commencement of 
Februar}^ of the same year, Mr. A. Meston, during his first exploration of Mount 
Bellenden Ker, procured a single specimen of a very handsome bird, wliich, at 
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