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Mr. T. Carter on some 
[Ibis, 
of! some bush. A careful search in the vicinity failed to 
find any bowers or playgrounds, and none were seen either 
in that gully, which we followed to its head, or any of 
the other numerous ones that were examined on that and 
following days. 
On the 7th of August I walked out to the place where 
the birds had been obtained, and took photographs of it, 
and the tree with the two nests ; but the prints obtained, 
and also the negatives, were lost with the bulk of my 
luggage on the s.s. ‘ Medina,’ when she was torpedoed in 
the English Channel in April 1917. I then again searched 
all the likely gullies in the vicinity, but only saw one 
Bower-bird, that was shot when feeding in a clump of 
fig-trees. I was out again the next day, but tramped many 
miles on the rugged ranges without any results, except 
seeing a single Bower-bird fly from a clump of fig-trees 
some distance from me. 
On the 9th of August Mr. Campbell drove me some miles 
in order to search fresh ground, and after examining several 
likely-looking places, the female bird that was figured (Ibis, 
1920, pi. xiv.) was obtained. Two others were seen to fly from 
a large mass of fig-trees, near where we were having our 
lunch, and a single bird from other fig-trees, when returning 
in the afternoon. Apparently these birds feed largely on 
wild figs. Their flight is straight, with rapid strokes of the 
wings, and resembles that of Magpies (Gymnorhina) ; they 
look large when flying. Whitlock, in his paper “ On the 
East Murchison,” Emu, vol. ix. p. 218, says of Cldamydera 
m. subguttata that the nuchal band is much smaller in the 
female bird than in the male. This is certainly not always 
the case with C. m. nova. The nuchal bands of all the birds 
obtained by me are mostly of a vivid pink colour, but they 
all contain a few bluish-purple feathers scattered in with the 
pink ones. I also noticed that the markings which appear 
to be black on the edges of the tawny spots on the crown of 
the head, show a distinct green when held at a certain angle. 
The North-West Cape is about 480 miles north-west of the 
locality where Mr. Whitlock obtained his birds. 
