The Australian Bower Bird is an extensive builder; it not only builds
its nest in a tree but it builds a palace on the ground in the shape
of a bower hut, furnishes it with nick-nacks such as shells, bones,
pieces of mineral, metals, bright parrots' feathers and other
trifles. What the English magpie would steal and hide away the Bower
Bird openly decorates his pavilion with. Often several birds collect
together and play like children, running in, out, and around their
wonderful bower-palace as shown in our picture.