. Wonders of the bird world. Birds. The Gardener Bower-bird 143 rosy fruits, probably of a scitamineous plant, and beautiful rosy flowers of a splendid new Vacciniuiii, now known as Agapetes aiiiblyormtlndis. There were also fungi and mottled insects placed on the turf As soon as the objects are faded, they are moved to the back of the ; The range of the Gardener Bower-bird extends from the Arfak Mountain in North-western New Guinea along the ranges which form the backbone of that great island, to Mount Victoria in the Owen Stanley mountains in south-. t. Formation of twigs. :i. Centr
. Wonders of the bird world. Birds. The Gardener Bower-bird 143 rosy fruits, probably of a scitamineous plant, and beautiful rosy flowers of a splendid new Vacciniuiii, now known as Agapetes aiiiblyormtlndis. There were also fungi and mottled insects placed on the turf As soon as the objects are faded, they are moved to the back of the ; The range of the Gardener Bower-bird extends from the Arfak Mountain in North-western New Guinea along the ranges which form the backbone of that great island, to Mount Victoria in the Owen Stanley mountains in south-. t. Formation of twigs. :i. Centre pole, wItK structure of twigs. 2. Moss. 4- liower (From a sketch by Sir William McGregor, published in the Queensland Blue Book for 1892.) eastern New Guinea. In the Astrolabe Range of the latter chain is found a second species of Gardener-bird, known Amblyomis subalai'is. It is orange-crested like the Arfak species, and has a similarly dull-coloured female. Sir William McGregor, the Governor of British New Guinea, discovered the bower of this bird, which seems to be quite as wonderful a structure as that of the other Gardener-bird. He describes it as follows—" This bower is built of twigs arranged in the shape of a shallow basin, about three feet in diameter, the side being some six inches higher than the centre. The whole of the basin is. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sharpe, Richard Bowdler, 1847-1909. New York, Frederick A. Stokes company
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