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the subject, as the writer points out ; but zeal for egg-collecting 

 would seem, in England at least, to have outweighed these con- 

 siderations, and, copious as are the data which Dr. Butler has 

 collected, one cannot but be struck with the great number of gaps 

 yet to be supplied. The observations recorded are almost all of 

 birds in captivity, and the conclusion pointed to is that the longer- 

 lived birds take the longer time to hatch their eggs. Appended 

 is a list of the Australian birds mentioned by Dr. Butler, with the 

 duration of incubation given for each ; members of the Union 

 resident here may be able to make useful com|mrisons from their 

 existing records or from future field and aviary notes : — 



Crimson Finch (Neochmia phaeton) 

 Red-browed Finch {Mgintha temporalis) 

 Gouldian Finch (Poephila gouldice) 

 Black-throated Grass-Finch (P. cincta) 

 Spotted-sided Finch {Staganopleura guttata) 

 Cheslnut-eared Finch (Ta-niopygia castanotis) 

 Bicheno Finch (Stictopteya bichenovii) 

 Plum-head Finch (Aidemosyne modesta) 

 Satin Bower-Bird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) 

 Bhie-bellied Lorikeet (Trichoglosstis novcs-hollandice) 

 Cockatoo-Parrakeet {Calopsittacus novce-hollandice) . 

 Black-tailed Parrakeet iPolytelis melanura) 

 Red-winged Lory {Ptistes erythropterus) 

 Pennant Parrakeet (Platycercus pennantii) 

 Pale-headed Parrakeet (P. pallidiceps) 

 Rosella Parrakeet {P. eximius) 

 Barnard Parrakeet {Bartiardiiis barnardi) 

 Many-coloured Parrakeet (Psephotus multicolor) 

 Red-rumped Parrakeet (P. hcematonotus) . . 

 Bourkc Grass-Parrakeet (Neophema bourkei) 

 Blue-banded Parrakeet {N . venusta) 



Turquoisine Parrakeet {N . ?) 



Warbling Grass-Parrakeet (Melopsittacus iinditlatus) 



Fit lie Tur tie-Dove {Geopelia cuneata) 



Brush Bronze-wing (Phaps elegans) 



Crested Bronze-wing (Ocy phaps lophotes) 



Zostcrops 



Cockatoos 



AusTR.'\LiAN Birds in Italy. — The Rev. H. D. Astlc}/, M.A., 

 M.B.O.U., occupies a coign of vantage in his home at Ligure, in 

 the Italian Riviera, that may well e.xcite the envy of liis less 

 fortunately situated fellow-aviculturists abroad, and there is a 

 touch of pardonable pride in his account, in The Avicultural 

 Magazine for April, of a fine haul which he made for his aviaries 

 on the 9th March last. On that day a vessel arrived at Genoa 

 with a consignment of Australian birds, and Mr. Astley obtained 

 four Bourke Grass- Parrakccts {Neophema bourkei), a pair of Many- 



