306 LORD, Kent Island Scrub-Wren 'h^a^^ 



and purplish brown ; in most cases the markings are pale, but are 

 more pronounced near the apex. In some cases the apex with 

 the exception of the extreme point, is generally purplish to 

 umber in general coloration. 



Dimensions in millimetres of four clutches : — 

 Clutch A. Clutch B. Clutch C. Clutch D. 



<1) 23 X 17 mm. (1) 23 x 17 mm. (1) 22.5 x 17.5 mm. (1) 24.5 & 17 

 <2) 24 X 17.5 mm. (2) 23 x 18 mm. (2) 22 x 18 mm. (2) 24 x 17.5 



The specimens were collected by Mr. T. McGuire, who sup- 

 plied the following information, which Mr. Hollingsworth for- 

 warded with the specimens : — 



"I have the pleasure of informing you that I have been suc- 

 cessful in finding the five clutches of eggs and the birds. The 

 first nest was found on the 9th September with two young birds, 

 and on the 14th with two young birds. And the second nest was 

 found on the 15th, with two eggs in, and another one on the 

 20th and 25th September, and October 6th and 13th, all with 

 two eggs, so I think they lay only two eggs. They were found 

 by my eldest son. Jack. 



"I am sending you two birds, one old and one young. The 

 young one is this year's. They were found north-east of the 

 jetty in some scrubby grass, and low bushy trees." 



Turquoise Parrot in the New York Zoological Gardens. — 



With reference to my letter some time ago to your valuable 

 Journal on the Turquoisine Parrakeet {Neophema pulchella), 

 which you so kindly printed, I have just come on a most inter- 

 esting note on this beautiful Parrakeet (now called the Turquoise 

 Parrot) in the vSeptembcr, 1022, issue of the .Ivicultural Maija- 

 zinc. Tt is written by Mr. J. B. Housden, and is entitled "My 

 First Visit to New York Zoological Park, Bronx Park (Winter 

 Season)." "Of this splendid collection, there were two birds 

 certainly that the writer coveted (although I have stuflfed speci- 

 mens, I have not seen a living specimen for many years), one 

 a beautiful male of the nearly extinct Australian Tiu-quoisine 

 Parrakeet. the other a male Cock of the Rock." Mr. Chisholm 

 in his article in the July Emu quotes my letter of 1013, but he 

 goes on to say that no response came to my question, so I take 

 it the bird is almost extinct in Australia. It is therefore very 

 strange that one should have turned u]) in the Xew Work Zf>o.* — 

 W. H. Workman, M.B.O.U., Belfast. 



* Since this latest letter from Mr. Workman arrived, I have made 

 fui-ther inquiries reprardinjr the beautiful Turquoise Parrot, but with 

 little success. Mr. A. S. Le Souef, who recorded in "The Emu" the 

 re-appearance of a small company of the birds near Sydney, under- 

 stands that one or two of these were captured and sent abroad, and 

 that at least one other was held as a call-bird. The whole business 

 poes to show what urgent necessity exists for puardinjr the vanishing 

 Ncophcnta and Psrfyliotns Parrots, both inland and at the seaportst— 

 A. H. Chisholm, Sydney. 



tSee "Notes from Stanthorpe," p. 320 (Eds.) 



