Word: bowerbird
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...circulate through the 500-plus crowd - like bumper-to-bumper traffic, shows have been in a gridlock of delay since morning. Hardly surprising, either, is the gasp that finally greets Akira's creations as they weave their way through the crowd: the Sydney-based designer has been perfecting his bowerbird brand of beauty since first showing solo at Australian Fashion Week in 1998. What is surprising is that 81-year-old Max Whitehead, the original "Chesty Bonds" singlet model of the 1950s, garners the most applause, and that the star of the evening is menswear...
Sighting the fabled bowerbird...
What he had seen was a yellow-fronted gardener bowerbird (Amblyornis flavi-frons). Though New York's American Museum of Natural History has two skins and the British Museum one (preserved since 1895), no Westerner had ever laid eyes on live specimens before, let alone observed their elaborate courtship ritual...
...observer," says Roger Tory Peterson, noted ornithologist-artist. "But Diamond seems credible, and, knowing New Guinea, I am not surprised by his boat trouble." According to Donald Bruning, curator of birds at the Bronx Zoo, Diamond is "one of the half-dozen people most qualified to identify this bowerbird...
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