cALopsriTAd's. 95 



•i^ ' " 'LD, who described this species, remarks in his "Handbook to the Birds of Australia:" ■• 

 •• All ornithologists now admit that there are two species of the genus Luiiuiis, one 

 inhabiting the western and the other the eastern portions of Australia. Living examples of both 

 have been for some time in the Menagerie of the Zoological Society of London, where their 

 differences are far more apparent than in the skins which have from time to time been sent to 

 this country." 



L;Vw(i'/5/<75/;«<?Ai;' is undoubtedly a good and distinct species, and even in dried skins the 

 specific characters are apparent. Its larger size, paler and more circumscribed colouring of the 

 head, hind-neck and throat, which does not extend on to the breast, and the rich sulphur- 

 yellow of the inner webs of the quills and most of the tail-feathers will readily serve to distinguish 

 it from the eastern species, Liaiictis uci.sna. The specimens in the Australian Museum Collection 

 were obtained by Mr. George Masters at King George's Sound in iSSfa, and at Mongup, Salt 

 River, Western Australia, in i86S. 



Mr. Edwm Ashby wrote me :— '■ I obtained a specimen of duatita pasiinatov ntd.x liroome 

 Hill, Western Australia, killed with poisoned wheat in a corn-field, in June 1S89." 



;Mr. G. .\. Keartland has sent me the following note : — " A friend of mine in March, 1895, 

 was at King George's Sound. Western Australia, and in the back country found Licmctis pastinatov 

 breeding. He examined one nesting place he had obser\ed a bird leave inside a spout of 

 a hollow gum tree, and found one egg laying on the rotten wood, and as he had chopped such a 

 hole in the limb that the bird was not likely to return to it, he took the egg. Afterwards he 

 found two more nesting places, and each contained a young bird. He brought one of them to 

 Melbourne, X'ictoria, also the egg, which I send you for description." 



The above egg is oval in form, dull white, although the shell has a slight lustre. When 

 examined under a lens numerous pittings are discernible all over the surface. It measures : — 

 Length 1-7 x i-i-] inches. 



Sub-family CALOPSITTACIN^. 

 Calopsittacus novse-hoUandiae. 



COCK ATI >0- PA RR A K E ET. 

 I'sitianns unfK -/iiiJ/ifHi/iii , Gniel., Syst, Nat., toin. I., p. 328 (1788). 

 NymphiciLs inivn hoUmidice, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. Vol. V., pi. -f.'i (18-18). 

 Calopsitla iiiirir /lollandia, Gould, Handbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. II., p. 84 (18G.5). 



CaJopsittariis nocce-hoUandid, ^sXvAd., Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. XX,, p. 135 (1891); Sliarpe, 

 Hand-1. Bds., Vol. H., p. 11 (1900); Salvad., Il.is 190.5, p. 131. 



Adult male. — Xapn, /liud-neck, scn/iu/ars and back dark yrei/is/i-bnncu, passing/ intu (jrey 011 

 the rump and tipper fail-cocerts : ivings dark yrry, blackialt towards On tips oftlie qiiills, the primary 

 cori'rts darker, ahnns/ black ; the outer series of t/ie median and greater icing-roverts irhite, formiuy 

 ail iihlony pn/c/i ihurn the centre <if the icin;/ ; central pair nf (ail-featlii rs grey, the remainder 

 blai-kisli-hroirn, the next pair on either side to the central ones greyish on tlieir oiUer webs ; foreliead, basal 

 portioJi of crest feathers, cheeks and throat lemon- yellotr : ear-corerts orange-red,- foreneck, all the 

 under surface and under tail-corerts greyish-brmrn : bill grey: leys and feet dark grey : iris broirti. 

 Total lengt/t in tlie flesh 1 ''o inches, icing Iro, tail H 75, bill 0-7, tarsus O'G. 



* Gould, Handbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. II., p. 12 (1S65) 



