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the feathers of the rimip and the upper tail-co\erts are washed with (jh\ e-yell(j\v and some of 

 them tipped with dull scarlet, as are also a few of the yellow cheek feathers. Another immature 

 example has the feathers of the back and scapulars black marsined with ashy-blue, and some 

 of the anterior cheek feathers indistinctly tipped with dull blue. 



From Broome Hill, South-western .Australia, Mr. Tom Carter writes me as follows: — 

 " The \'ellow-cheeked Parrakeet f Plafyccmis ictavlif) is a common bird throughout the south- 

 western district of Western Australia, and especially so about Broome Hill. They become very 

 tame about a homestead, and enter stables, chaff rooms, etc., to pick up stray corn, and turn 

 o\er horse droppings like Sparrows in their .luest for food. They commence to lay at the end 

 of .August, or early in September, and three to five eggs appear to form a clutch. The laying 

 season must extend over a considerable time, as young birds have been constantly noted in the 

 nests in the latter part of December. I knew of live young birds being taken from the nest on 

 the ihth I )eceniber, 1907. Two \ery remarkable varieties were shot near Katanning in 1906, 

 the whole plumage being white and sulphur yellow. If I remember rightly the head and body 

 were white and wings yellow. I have secured several specimens with the feathers of the mantle 

 broadly edged with red, as much as an eighth of an inch wide, the ends of the scapulars and also 

 the rump feathers and upper tail-coverts, especially the last, showing much red. They appear 

 to correspond withthe description of Platycerciis xdiithcgciiys, Sahadori, but to me they seem 

 like well matured birds of/', iiici-olis." 



Gould, referring to P/i;(i'u'ri»5 /c/i-ni/zs, remark's : — "The eggs, which are white and six or 

 seven in number, are eleven lines long and nine and a half lines broad ; they are deposited in the 

 holes of large trees without any nest." 



Voung birds are green above and below, the outer series of the lesser and median upper 

 wing-coverts, the primary coverts, and the outer webs of the primaries are dull dark" blue, the 

 remainder of the wing green ; feathers of the rump tipped with dull scarlet; tail as in the 

 adult; feathers of the forehead, sides of neck, breast and abdomen tipped with dull scarlet; 

 under tail-coverts dull yellow washed with scarlet. Wing 5 inches. In their progress towards 

 maturity the dull scarlet tips to the feathers of the forehead extend also to those of the crown of 

 the head, nape and under parts; centre of the cheek's yellow, some of the feathers below the eye 

 dull scarlet. 



Barnardius barnardi. 



BARNARD'S PAKRiKEET. 



I'lafijci'i-cus hiirnardi, Vig. and Horsf., Trans. Linn. Soc, Vol. XV., p :283 (182G); Gould, Bds. 

 Austr, fol. Vol. v., pi. 21 (1848) ; id, flandbk. Bds. Austr,, Vol. XL, p. 40 (1865), 



lUirnanUii-^ hanidrdi, Salvad., Oat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol, XX,, p, o.TS(bs91) ; Slinrpe, lIand-1. Bda,, 



Vol. H., p. 38 (1900): Salvad,, Ibis, 1907, p, .•'.12. 



Aoui.r MALK, — Foreli'-ad red: rro/rn nf thf Juad, ear-cnrrrtx mid chei'ks rfrditer-(/reen, t/ie 



aiilermr i>orliijn of llie lntti>r hhie : hand im f/n' u<i/i' dull bhiis/i-brnn/n : a band around the h'md- 



neck, broader at the sides, yeUoiv ; scn/iu/ars ami baek dull greijish-blue ,■ (( band dmrn the eentrr of 



(lie upper iviny-corirls, rump and upper tail-curerfs ri-rdifer-r/reeii n'ush'd u-i/h yellow : lesser and 



median -upper miiig-coverts, tlie priuiary cocerts ami outer uvbs if the primaries rich deep blue, the 



outer ivebs of the outer secondaries blue, all tJie retuainder and tips of the innermost series green, 



inner webs of quills blackish : central pair of tail feathers i/rfii passintj into blue ton-ards the tips, the 



next on either side green, dark blue on the oii./rr /veb Inu-ards the tip, leliirh is pale blue, the remainder 



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