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e nonki Coona..b,e a,Kl th.ee hund.ea and seventy e,„n ,.i,es west of Sydney, the late 

 o- Vy^P^ 'I'r '" '■■^'-^--'■- ---din^'ly "un.e.-ous,n November, 



had only the n ed.an upper wtn,-coverts chestnut-red, the inner .greater coverts and innermost 

 econdartes ye ow.sh-ohve. the former slightly tin,ed wuh chestnut-red ; other adult males had 

 the med,an and greater win,-coverts yellowish-oHve. the forn.er only washed wUh .hestn -red 

 o. havtn, du 1 cr„nson-red tips. In twenty adult specin.ens now before me, only two have the' 

 pn3,._nmced chestnut-red band down the .entre of the win,, as is shown in Gould's upper fil 

 o P.pkofns W, „,..,., ,„ ,„, ,3Ho edition of the ■ Btrds of Australia." Some adult birds have 

 he^ster,orport,on of the ear coverts pale brown, .n others they are white or streal J ^ ^ 

 u hue. Two adult specn.ens obta.ned o„ the Castlerea.h River have the upper parts very pale 



rown and son.e ol the feather on the crown of the head and nape dull chestnut-red, and h ,' 

 mounted specimen the upper tail-coverts aie stamed with red. 



The crops and stomachs of the birds exammed contan,ed only the seeds of various trasses 

 an herbaceous plants. Both th.s and the ^'ellow-vented ParralLt live we,, in confinCt 

 d usually learn to wh.stle we,,. They are, however, remark-ab,v .pitefu, and pu,naciot 

 toot er mmatesof an av,ary. Mr. W. J. Banks, of 1 ;e,more, inforn^ed me that o'e day h 

 purcha^ed from a Sydney bird dealer two pairs of '■ li,ue-bonnet - ^'-^l,.,,,- J ! ; 

 fvvr, ■^.■;,-- -,f i\r., I J ,, , me uonnet^ {tupliotiis h^nnatovyhoiis l, 



o pans Of Many-o.loured l^artakeets r/^ ..///,./,.,.;, and one pair of Red-rump^ 

 i . lunnafonotns), wh.ch on returning hon.e were piaced in a cage together, wh„e he went to the 

 KUtse to have hts dtnner^ On coming out he caught one of the "Blue-bonnets " in the act of k ,1 ! 

 one of U.e Red run,ped Parrakeets, and which eventually d,ed : he also found three of the Many" 



b:m!T-tt!: :,: ": t °" t'' ''^"' '^^ '^^ ^^'^^^ "" '-' ^-" '^'"-^ ■- ^ -->-- ~ ^y 



Demg [iitten through the neck. ■' 



Mr. EH. Lane-, of Orange, New South Wales, writes me as follows :-'• In i88S at 



Uambangalan.,Ifou,,d twonestsofthe Red-vented I>arrakeetrP.//,,V../,..„..,.V,,.„;co„t^ 

 hve eggs ea.h, ,„ t e ^„ows of White Box trees. . >n this, and one or two othe occl^^ 



:::'t"^c:r:rR;: t:" '"^ -^^- '■' ^--'-' --^ ^ — ^ - - s.x eggs ... 



Mr^Percy Peir. of Marrickv.lle, Sydney, writes n.e :-^- I have had a number of the Red- 

 ented Parrakeets, or ^Blue-bonnets ' fP.p,,.,,. I.n..U.rrI,.„. , and thev are far nrore beautiful 



ma ly to 1 e lo g distances away from Sydney where they are caught, and a subsequent railway 



utney with laC. ol attention. The luortality is ,reat. but the survivors live we 1 so Ion. a 

 they are separated into true pairs, otherwise ,t wi„ be disastrous, as these Parrakeets a re ,;os 



n^TZ:: ;': °" " ?"' ^'^^ '-■'- '-'' °^'-'- -— f— .. i losta^::^: 



b..ne . If possible to make their escape these birds will do so, so much do they dislike ca^e 

 l.te. I hey require a considerable amount of the roots of freshly pulled grass, I addition to 

 Canary seed otherwise they will eventually die oh. I have received bird from Warren 

 byrock and Moree, New Soutli Wales." \\airen, 



Casul^nnr^ uTT^' r"'""' ' "^"'^ ^' ^ '''' '" ^ "^^^ "^^^"^ °^ ^ Eucalyptus or 

 Casuanna At the time of my visit to the Castlereagh River, in November, 1.05 t,,ese birds 

 were breeding ,„ hollows in Wilgas and in the rung timber surrounding a dam a ah 

 varying from ten to forty feet from the ground. ^ 



The eggs are usually five to eight in number for a sitting, pure white, the shell bein^^ close 

 gran^d^^O. and ahu^ustreless. A set of^even taken from a hollow in a dead BeL; 



* Bds. Austr , fol \'ol. \' , pi. ^^ (,s^s ." 



