676 THE BIRDS OP LORD HOWE AND NORFOLK ISLANDS, 



369(M). SO.Cyanorhamphus cooki Gray. 



Norfolk Island Parrakeet; Green Parrot^N.!.). 



Cyanorhamphus cooki (non rayneri), North, Proc. Linn.. 

 Soc.N.S. Wales, viii, p.517. 



Hah. — Norfolk Island. 



This graceful Parrakeet is now becoming so scarce at Norfolk 

 Island that the Chief Magistrate (Captain Elliott, R.N.) issued a 

 notification protecting it from destruction unless caught, m 

 flagrante delicto, damaging the fruit-crops. It is now almost 

 entirely restricted to the gullies running up towards the top of 

 Mount Pitt. 



While at Norfolk Island I did not succeed in finding any nests, 

 but at Palm Glen, the residence of Mr. Alfred Waterhouse, on a 

 spur of Mount Pitt, I saw several birds, and was informed that 

 they breed in hollows of dead trees, generally at a considerable 

 height from the ground. 



Eggs, clutch two, creamy white, surface dull. Two eggs taken 

 on the 12th of October, 1902, presented to me by Dr. Metcalfe, 

 differ remarkably in size, the dimensions being: {a). I'll x 0*9; 

 (6) 0-88 X 0-78. 



I have also a single egg, taken at Mount Pitt, on the 28th of 

 February, 1909, measuring 1*15 x 0'97. 



370(M). .51. Cyanorhamphus sdbflavescens Salvadori. 

 Lord Howe Island Parrakeet. 

 Platycercus sp., Etheridge, 'Lord Howe Island,' p. 10. 

 Hab. — Lord Howe Island(extinct). 



Mrs. Nichols informed me that, some years ago, this Parrakeet 

 was ver}'- plentiful, but, being destructive in the fruit-gardens, it 

 was gradually exterminated. 



CORACIIFORMES. 

 381(M). 52.EURYSTOMUS pacificus Latham. 



Dollar-bird or Roller. 

 Eurystomus pacificus, Ramsay, p. 3 7. 



Jjab. — Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands (visitor only). (Aus- 

 tralia, except S. and W., New Zealand, Molucca Is., Celebes, 

 Lesser Sunda Is.). 



