166 FLATYCF.KCIN.H. 



" A nesting-place of tliis Parrakeet, containing four eggs, was found by Mr. W. White near 

 Pudnooka, in the Murray Scrub, the eggs being simply deposited on the decaying wood in the 

 hollow limb of a Eucalyptus Juiiiosa. The eggs are svhite, and nearly round in form, the texture 

 of the shell being \ery line and nearly lustreless. An average specimen measures o-88 x 077 

 inches. This is the only occasion on which I have known the eggs of this species to have been 

 taken. Mr. White captured the female while sitting, and succeeded in keeping her in an aviary 

 for several years." ' L'pon forwarding Mr. White, of the Reedbeds, Adelaide, a reprint of " The 

 Ibis " for i'S94, in which the above information appeared, also on the eggs of Polvtclis nielanura 

 and Glussopsittacus poi'phyrcoccphalus, obtained by Mr. White, he wrote me as follows : — " \'our 

 little pamphlet re Parrakeets to hand, for which 1 thank you. I read it with much interest, as 

 it brought to mind places, and past people and scenes, and little difficulties and dibappointments 

 surrounding those tew words written on EupJicin.\ iphiuiida. I was surprised to read that it was 

 the first time you had !<nown the eggs of this species to have been taken. It was in September, 

 1S63, when in company with Mr. J. Taylor, tiie owner of Pudnooka Station. It brought clearly 

 to my mind the place, the tree and the circumstances under which that solitary bird was taken, 

 and our endea\ours to get the male bird by watching, but without success. From the very 

 limited opportunity I ever had of observing this species, it appears to me that it is an e.xtremely 

 solitary, and almost noiseless resident of the most lonely scrub, and only sufficiently sociable to 

 go in pairs at certain seasons of the year. 1 got a tine male bird, a solitary object, far in the 

 scrub, where there was no other life to be seen, e.xcept the Cicada, and no water for many miles. 

 At other times I have come across an almost noiseless bird, as it dartte out of a clump of Mallee, 

 to be seen or heard no more, for it is a hundred to one chance if you see it again. The note is 

 very feeble, a faint running sound, and one lias to be fairly smart to hear it. The female I 

 caught on the nest and kept in the aviary most certainly bore out the views I formed. She 

 selected the most out of the way dark corner tor her abode, and there she remained from week 

 to week and month to month, for several years, always to be seen in or about the same spot. In 

 the spring, when all the other Parrakeets, Eupliciua clcgaus included, were active and noisy, there 

 sat that solitary object in its usual spot." 



<3eniaS l>T.,f^3SrOIDE3, Vif/<»-s and U„r^f„'hl. 



Nanodes discolor. 



hiWIKl'-FLYINc; P.VKRAKEET. 

 Psittdi-iis discolor, Sliaw in White's Voy., p. -JO:'., pi. +i) (1790), 



La//ii(,nus di-icoior, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. Vol. V., pi. 47 (It'^S); id., Uaiidbk. Bds. Austr., 



Vol. 11., p. 90 (1865). 

 ^'aHodes disco/or, Sahacl., Oat. Bds. Brit. Mu.s., Vol XX , p. ."i9:i (1891) ; id., II. is, 1907, p. :517. 



Adult male. — General colour nbocc gcrfn; lon'n i/ellow: Joriln'iil crimsnt: liirotU crinisott 

 bordered iri/h i/i'llo/r ; sincipiil deeji blue; primaries blackislidiruira irashi'd ivit.li deep blue it tlie 

 based, portion, of ihcir outer webs, the outermost series exteriialhj edyed ivilli yellou;, and the iwierinost 

 series ivitli yreen, nacmich) manjiued 'cith ijelloir; secondaries blachi^li bron:n, grcn on their outer 

 ivebs, and crhnson ou th.e inner n^ebs of the inueonosl series, all tlie inner ivebs of the quills margined 

 tviih stran-i/ellou' ,■ pritnary coverts and bastard-wing dark blue; outer series oj the greater wing- 

 corerts bine; shoulder dark red: remaindr id the upper wing-covi'rts and scapulars green. ; tn^o central 

 tad-feathers dull red, blue id the tips, remainder of the tail-feathers blue, yellowisli-green at the tips, 

 washed with dull red, decreasing in extent towards the outermost feather on either side ; chest, breast 



* North, Ibis, 1894, p. 260. 



