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 140 Bird- Lore with white moss, and the arch with similar moss mingled with clusters of green fruit resembling wild grapes. Through and over the covered run play the birds, young and old, of both sexes. A still more inter- esting and characteristic feature in the play-ground of this bird remains. The completion of the massive bower, so laboriously attained, is not sufficient to arrest the architectural impulse. Scattered immediately around are a number of dwarf, hut-like structures — ' gunyahs,' they are called by Broadbent, who says he found five of them in a space ten feet in diameter, and observes that they give the spot exactly the appearance of a miniature black's camp. These seem to be built by bending towards each other strong stems of standing grass, and cap- ping them with a horizontal thatch of light twigs." SCREECH OWL Flash-light photograph by A. J. Penn'jck, Lansdowne, Pa.