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the ground, and was the lowest one Mr. Austhi informed me that he had ever found. \'isiting 

 it two days later the bird was found still sitting in the limb on the single egg. This is the 

 nesting-place I photographed, and is here reproduced. 



The breeding place is in a hole in a 

 limb of a tree, and the eggs, two in number 

 for a sitting, are laid on the decayed 

 wood and dust found in these ca\ities. 



Typically the eggs are nearly !,'lobular 

 in form, l:)ut ellipses and swollen o\als 

 are nut uncommon ; they are white, the 

 sliill being close-grained, smooth and 

 lustreless. .A set of two taken near 

 I'ubbo, Xew South Wales, measure; — 

 Length (A) roi x 079 inches; (B) i-o2 



X o-S inches. A set ol two taken at 

 Byng, New South Wales, by INIr. S. 

 Robinson, on the ()th November, 1895, 

 measure: — Length (A) 0-98 x 0-82 

 inches; (B) O'gy -t- o'S:; inches. Another 

 set taken on the same date measure — • 

 Length (A) ro5 x o-.Sj inches: (B) 1-04 



X 0-S3 inches. .\ set of two taken by 

 Mr. Thos. 1*. Austin, from a hole in a 

 tall Red Gum tree, near a bank of the 

 Talbragar Ri\er, Cobborah Station, 

 Cobbora, New South Wales, on the 2()th 

 August, 1908, measure; — Length (A) 

 I X 0-8 inches; (B) 0-94 x (v8i inches. 



.\ recently hatched young one, taken 

 from the nesting-place by Mr. Austin, on 

 Cobborah Station, on the r2th October, 

 ii)0(|, was co\ered with greyish-white 

 down; bill brown, the tip black; legs 

 and feet flesh colour, the latter strongly 

 washed with grey ; eyes only partially 

 opened, and the iris apparently brown. 



August and the four lollowing months 

 NEsTiNi.-Pi.ACK OK Mi'siv i.iini ivF.i'.T. Constitute the usual breeding season. 



Glossopsittacus pusillus. 



I.riTLK [.OKIKEKT. 

 PsiZ/nruti /i>i.-^iJh(s, Sliaw, in White's .Iriurn. of a Voy. to N. S. WmIcs, p. i:G2, pi. (8 (17'JO). 

 Trichnglntsiis- piisilinf, Gould, Ikls. Austr., fol. \'ol. V., pi. ."1 1 (1S4S). 

 0/ossopsit/a piisilla, Gould, Handbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. If., p. 103{lSGo). 



Gloxsojtsi/fncHs pusi'l'is, Sa.\va.(]., Cat. Hds. Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 7 1 (18S11) ; Sharpe, lland-1. 

 Bds., VolTL, p. G (1900) ; S.-ilva^i., Il.i.s, IHO.-., p. 422. 



