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1. Centre pole.

2. Bower. 4, Twigs, beans, and beetles.

Mr. Goodwin’s account of the bower of the present bird differs somewhat from that given above.

The following is a description of a pair of adult birds -—

Adult male. General colour above uniform dark olive-brown, rather more olive on the back, rump, and
upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts like the back; bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quills olive-brown exter-
nally, internally dark brown;  tail-feathers dark brown, washed with olive-brown externally ; crown of head
with an immense crest of orange, the lateral and frontal feathers edged and tipped with blackish brown; base
of forehead dusky olive-brown ; hind neck lighter olive-brown; lores ashy; sides of face, eyebrow, and ear-
coverts dark olive-brown; cheeks and entire under surface of body light olive-brown, streaked down the
centre of the feathers with ochreous buff, the sides of body and flanks rather browner; thighs dusky brown ;
under tail-coverts fulvous, with ochreous-buff centres to the feathers, the long ones edged with dark brown ;
under wing-coverts and axillaries orange-buff or tawny; quills below dusky, ochreous along the inner edge.
Total length 8:3 inches, culmen 1, wing 9, tail 3:4, tarsus 1-3.

Adult female. Differs from the male in having no orange crest, the head being like the back. Total
length 8°3 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 4°8, tail 3-3, tarsus 1-4.

Mr. Forbes procured specimens of both sexes, killed in the rainy season. The whole of the colours are
paler and more olive, and the ochreous tints of the under surface are much paler, especially on the under
wing-coverts. The male is distinguished from the female at this season of the year only by the greater
amount of clear ochreous on the underparts.

The figures in the Plate represent an adult male and female, drawn from a pair procured by Mr. Hunstein
in the Horseshoe Range.