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RECORDS OF THE ATTSTRAT^IAN MUSEUM. 



Rare. One specimen ouly obtained on Willerooii Station, 

 adj()inin<^- Coolabali. This species is locallj known in many 

 parts of Western New Sontli Wales as the " Qnarrion." 



POLYTELIS r.ARRABANDI 



Barraband's Parrakeet. 



Pslttid-iis hi(rr(iln()i(h'i, Swains., Zool. lUusti'., pi. 59 (1821). 



Poli/telia h((rraJi(niih\ Gould, Bds. Austr., fol., v., pi. 15 (I8-i8); 

 ' iJ., Handbk. Bds. Anstr., ii., p. 31 (1865) ; Salvad., Cat. 

 Bds. Brit. Mns., xx., p. 478 (1891); North, Nests and 

 Eggs Austr. Bds., 2nd. ed., iii., pt. ii., p. 99 (1911). 



At Coolabali I saw a fine old adult male of Bari-abaiid's 

 Parrakeet, o)' "Green Leek" in Constable W. C. Wrightsou's 

 aviary, and was informed by him that tliis species is usuallj' 

 very common in the district during winfei-, but all leave again 

 early in spring. In the winter of 1914, he estimated, while on 

 liis rounds, he had observed over seven hundred of these birds, 

 but in the winter months of 1915, little more than half that 

 number. He had at various times seen many Barraband's 

 Parrakeets in cages on the Coolabali r^ilwaj' station, that had 

 been trapped in the disti'ict and were awaiting their despatch 

 by train to Sydiiej^ bird-dealers. 



I was rather siii'prised to learn of Barraband's Parrakeet 

 occurring so far north and in such numbers. The stronghold 

 of this sjiecies in the State, being the Wagga District, where 

 it breeds, some two hundred and eighty miles to the south-east 

 of Coolabali. Barraband's Pai'rakeef, when taken young from 

 the nesting place, soon learns to clearly articulate short sen- 

 tences, and when fully adult is one of the most beautiful and 

 attractive of cage pets. 



Ptistes erythropterus. 



Red- winged Parrakeet. 



I'ffitt'tnts i-riill/r<iiifi-n(s, Gmel., Syst. Nat., i., p. 343 (1788). 



Apnj.-<iiii<-tii>! eriithnijiteriix, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol., v., pi. 18 

 (1848). 



