^JiSTS AND liiSGS Of AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 63 1 



However, wliou Dr. Ramsay's own collector brought from the Cairns 

 scrubs precisely similar Parrakoets, a year or two afterwards, the Doctor 

 dill not apparently hesitate to describe them imder the uauie Flatyctrcus 

 pcHiuintii, variety nii/reactns. 



This Parrakect is most probably the same variety observed by the 

 Queensland Scientific Expedition (1881)), near the summit of Belleuden- 

 Ker. 



496. — Platyceecus ADELAiDiE, Gould. — (416) 

 ADELAIDE ROSELLA. 



Figure. — Gould : Birds of Australia, iol., vol. v., pi. 22. 



Rejtrence. — Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. xx., p. 543. 



Frevioui Description of Eggs. — Campbell ; Victorian Naturalist (18S8). 



Geograpliical Distnbutiun. — South Australia. 



A'tst. — Within a hollow limb or trunk of a tree. 



Egys. — ^Ulutch, five or more ; roimdish or roimd oval iu form ; textvue 

 of shell comparatively fine ; surface glossy ; coloui", piu'e white, sometimes 

 stained with the wood of the nest. Dimensions in inches of a proper 

 clutch: (1^ 1-14 X -95, (2) M2 x -94, (3) M2 x -92, (4j Ml x -92, 

 (u; 1-04 X -92. 



Ohservations.—lLhe ii.delaide Rosella or Pheasant Parrakeet is a 

 beautiful species in radiant colouring, between the RoseDa and the 

 Crimson Pairakeet, which appears to be restricted to South Austraha, 

 including the interior. It was named adelaidensis, from the circum- 

 stance that Gould, in 1838, procured some of his first specimens in the 

 very streets of Adelaide. The South Australians have an equally good 

 vernacular name — Pheasant Parrot. 



In the matter of wholly green or partially coloured youthful birds, 

 this species resembles P. eleyans (ptnnaittii). 



In 1888, through the comtesy of iy.r. Geo. Beazley, 1 was enabled to 

 describe tne eggs of the Adelaide Rosella from the collection of the 

 Adelaide Museum, wliich eggs were collected by the late Mr. F. W. 

 Andrews. 



Afterwards I received a full set of five eggs collected by Mr. W. 

 White, Reedbeds, taken from a hole in a large gum-tree growing on the 

 bank of a rocky creek. Flinders Range. Date, 20th September, 1894. 



Some authorities believe the Adelaide Rosella to be a hybrid. Such 

 cannot be a fact, because Mr. White has had them breed and hatch 

 young in liis aviary. 



