BY A. F. BASSET HULL. 675 



:283(M). 46.NINOX boobook Latham. 



Boobook Owl. 



Ninox hoohook, Rarasay, p. 37, 



Hah. — Norfolk Island. (Australia generally, Tasmania). 



Ramsay says : " The Norfolk Island bird is said to be Ninox 

 hoobook, but it is more likely to prove to be Ninox novce-zealandlcB, 

 or perhaps the present species " [iV. albaria]. 



I did not see or hear this bird at Norfolk Island, but was 

 informed that it still exists in the gullies on Mount Pitt. 



PSITTACIFORMES. 



.299(M). 47. Nestor productus Gould. 



Phillip Island Parrot. 

 Nestor productus, Ramsay, p. 38. 

 IJab. — Phillip Island(extinct). 



■300(M). 48. Nestor norfolcensis Pelzeln. 



Norfolk Island Parrot. 

 Ilab. — Norfolk Island(extinct). 



334(M). 49.PLATYCERCUS ELEGANs Gmelin. 



Pennant's Parrakeet; Red Parrot(N.I.). 



PlcUycercns pennanti^ Ramsay, p. 37; var. NohbsiTiiHiva.m, Ibis 

 iii..(5thSer.)p 48(1885). 



Ilab. — Norfolk Island. (S. Queensland, New South Wales, 

 Victoria, S. Australia). 



Pennant's Parrakeet is found in very large numbers at 

 Norfolk Island, feeding in pairs or small flocks along the road- 

 side, or in the cultivation-paddocks. It also evinces a partiality 

 for tlie orchards when the fruit is ripening, and, generally 

 speaking, is most destructive in field, orchard, or strawberry 

 garden. 



Being a mainland species, it is rather curious that this bird 

 has not settled at Lord Howe Island also. 



It lays from five to eight eggs in a spout or hollow of a dead 

 tree. They are dull white, rounded in form. Dimensions : 1-08 x 

 88.(N.L, 10th Oct., 1908). 



