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Ptistes enithroftevux, Gonid, Handbk. Bds. Austr., ii., p. 37 

 (1865) ; Salvad., Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., xx., p. 481 (1891) ; 

 North, Nests and Eggs Aastr. Bds., 2nd. ed., iii., pt. ii., 

 p. 108 (1911). 



Occui's also at Coolabah, but the only examples I saw were 

 cage birds in confinement, one of tlieni an adult female, was a 

 call bird, used by a trapper. Known locally, as in other parts of 

 Northern and North-western New South Wales, as the " Bello- 

 wing." A fully adult male with its strikingly contrasted 

 plumage of light green and red makes an unusually attractive 

 cage bird. 



Barnakiuds babnardi. 



Barnard's Parrakeet. 



Fluti/cercus harnardi, Vig. and Horsf., Trans. Linn., Soc, xv^., 

 ■p. 283 (1826) ; Gould, Bds. Austr., fol., v., pi. 21 (1848); 

 id., Handbk. Bds. Austr., ii., p. 40 (1865). 



Barnardlus barnardi, Salvad., Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., xx., p. 558 

 (1891) ; North, Nests and Eggs Austr. Bds., iii., pt. ii., p. 

 133 (1911). 



Barnard's Parrakeet, or " Buln Buln," as it is locally known 

 in Central and Western New South Wales, was met with 

 usually in small flocks of from four to seven in number at 

 Coolabah, sometimes in pairs, but it was nowhere so common 

 as I found it in 1905 on the Castlereagli River, some sixteen 

 miles to the north of Coonanible. Probably the drought had 

 something to do with the scarcity of this species, for 1 was in- 

 formed that as a rule, it was plentiful in the neighbourhood. 

 Not seen at Brewarrina. 



PSEPHOTDS H^MATONOTDS. 



Red-rumped Parrakeet. 



Flatycercus licpmatonotus, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1837, p. 151. 



Psei'JiotKs ]i(t'i)iato)totits, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. v., j)l. 36 

 (1848) ; id., Handbk. Bds Austr., ii., p. 69 (1865) ; 

 Salvad., Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., xx., p. 567 (1891) ; North, 

 Nests and Esrgs Austr. Bds., 2nd. ed. iii., pt. ii., p. 149 

 (1911). 



