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NOTES ON THE NIDIFICATION OF CERTAIN 

 AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 



By a. J. North, F.L.S. 



1. Platycercus Barnardi, Vigors and Horsfield. 



This beautiful Pairakeet is distributed over the southern 

 portions of the interior of Australia, and is found frequenting 

 alike the neighbourhood of the Lachlan and Darling Rivers in 

 New South Wales, as well as the dense Mallee districts of 

 Victoria and South Australia. In the cultivated portions of the 

 country the birds assemble together in small flocks, and commit 

 great depredations on the crops, consequently a merciless warfare 

 is waged against them by the farmers. For a set of the eggs of 

 this species I am indebted to Mr. Joseph A. Hill, of "Pine Rise," 

 Kewell, Victoria, who obtained them, after carefully watching a 

 pair of birds for some time in the vicinity, on September 

 15th, 1887. They were deposited on the decaying wood, about 

 two feet down the hollow limb of a Eucalyptus, at a height of 

 thirty feet fi'om the ground. The eggs are five in number for a 

 sitting, pure white, oval in form, and nearly equal in size at both 

 ends, measuring as follows : — 



Length (A) Ml X 0-9 inch; (B) 1-2 x 0-92 inch; (C)M6xO-91 

 inch ; (D) M7 x 0-9 inch ; (E) M8 x 092 inch. 



