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side of the Flinders Range, measure as follows: — Length (A) ri x o-yi inches; (1!) pij x 

 o\ji inches; (C) i-ii x 0-93 inches; (D) ri2 x o-8g inches; (E) i-o6 x o-g inches. A set 

 of seven received from I)r. A. M, Morgan, and taken in October, 1897, at Pensey Vale, Angaston, 

 South Australia, measure: — Length (A) 1-13 x 0-95 inches; (B) 1-15 x 0-96 inches; (C) 

 1-15 X 0-97 inches; (D) i 13 x 0-95 inches; (E) rig x 0-95 inches; (F) r2 x 0-93 inches; 

 (G) i'i7 X 0-95 mches. A set of three in Mr. G. .\. Keartland's collection, taken in September, 

 1.S95, by Mr. \V. White on the Flinders Range, measures: — Length (A) i-i2 x o-88 inches ; 

 (B) ro8 X 0'88 inches ; (C) i'i2 x o-88 inches. 



September and the three following months constitute the breeding season of this species. 



Platycercus flaveolus. 



YELL0W-KU5IPED PARRAKEET. 



PhUiji-ti-ciis f!(a-<iilus, Gould, Proe. Zool. Soc, 18.37, p. liG ; i<l., Bds. Austr., fol. Vol. V., pi. 26 

 (1848); ir/., Handbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. II., p. .50(1865); Salvad., Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 

 Vol. XX., p. '>\\ (1891) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. Bds., Vol. II., p. 37 (1900). 



Adult malk. — 'rewral rolnur abore andbelmc n lUiii/y pule yidlotc, unt/i l/lac/ci.^h cenlrrs to the 

 feathers I if thr bark and sea jiidars ; a bainl uii tliefnreheiid crimson, tlie lores and fvreneck sligltlly 

 iva.flied loitli crimson; cluiks bl iir : quills black, (lieir outer webs deep blue; the outer secondaries 

 externally niaryiiied with pale blue, the inner ones, as '.cell as the inner greater iving-coverts tvith 

 pale yellojv : the outer wing-coverts pale blue, the iipper lesser iving-coverts deep blue, irith a patch of 

 black on the iitner lesser and nndian. corerfs ; tnjo central tail-feathers bine n'ashed ivifh green, except 

 tankards t/ie tips , the next pair blue on their outer ivelis, blackish-brown on their inner webs witii pale 

 blue tips : l/ie remainder blue nn their outer webs at the base, blackish-broivn on their inner njebs, 

 their a/iical half jiale blue ; bill horn colour, ichitish on- the nlge of upper mandible and at the base; 

 legs and feet dark greyislt-black ; iris black. Total length in the flesh IJ-.j inches, u'ing <J'4, tail 7, 

 bill 0-7, tarsus 0-7 2. 



Adult fkmalk. — Similar in plumage to the male. 



Distribution — New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia. 



IJnN general appearance, when \iewed on the under parts, the Yellow-rumped Parrakeet closely 

 Jl. resembles Platycevcus f/nvivciilris, the only difference being in the depth and intensity of the 

 yellow colouring. It is, however, a smaller and paler bird, especially on the upper parts, and 

 has that washed-out appearance usually associated with birds frequenting hot and arid districts, 

 and not the southern and more temperate parts of the Australian continent, where it is found. 

 Gould, who described this species from an example obtained in New South Wales, beautifully 

 figures it in his folio edition of the " Birds of Australia," but none of the specimens in the 

 Australian Museum Collection are so clear a yellow as is there represented. There was a large 

 number of these birds e.xposed for sale in the bird-dealer's shops in George-street, Sydney, in 

 January, 191 1. I saw over one hundred birds, adult and young, in one box. 



The range of this species e.xtends throughout the greater part of Southern New South 

 Wales, into Northern and North-western X'ictoria, and the south-eastern portions of South 

 Australia. The specimens in the .Australian Museum Collection were procured by Mr. George 

 Masters at Wagga Wagga, on the Murrumbidgee River, by the late Mr. K. H. Bennett on the 

 Lachlan River, and there is a single specimen from Mildura, Victoria, received in exchange 

 from the Trustees of the South Australian Museum, Adelaide. Dr. A. M. Morgan, who met 

 with this species at Laura, in South Australia, and as far south and west as Port Augusta, has 

 also presented an adult male and female Platycercus banmrdi -\- P. flaveolus, and wrote me : — " 1 



