172 Pr.ATYCKKCIN.E. 



October, and November in the Cloncurry District, North <_)ueensland. LHiring the journey of 

 the Calvert Exploring- Expedition in Western and North-western Australia, in i8g(i, these birds 

 were noted throughout the whole of the country traversed, and numbers of eggs and young birds 

 were found in July and August. At Broome Hill, South-western Australia, Mr. Tom Carter 

 observed it breeding freely in November and December. In South Australia, 1 >r. .\. Chenery 

 informs me he took two sets of the eggs of this species on the 22nd April, igoi, at Arcoona 

 Station, one hundred and forty miles north-west of Port Augusta. 



In the bird shops of Sydney in igoS-ii I saw several hundreds of the yellow or yellowish- 

 green form of this species, which M. Octave Le Bon informs me are bred on the Continent, 

 chiefly in France. 



IMr. D. Seth-Smith, writing of The Crystal Palace Bird Show of 191 1, remarks: — " In the 

 first of the foreign classes, that devoted to Budgerigars, Love-birds and Hanging Parrots, M. 

 Pauwels easily won the first place with his pair of Blue Budgerigars. It is not often a variety 

 or freak is more beautiful than the normal bird from which it is derived, but in this case I think 

 most people will agree that the delicate blue, set off' by the white of the face, renders this variety 

 more strikingly beautiful than the normal green, lovely as the bird is. The class for the larger 

 Parrakeets was headed by a very perfect male Black-hooded ['arnikealf Psc-pliotus cundlattis), also 

 sent by M. Pauwels." 



Ca-eH-aS I=E!ZiO:F'OISTJ"S, I'Uger. 



Pezoporus terrestris. 



GROUND-PAREAKEET. 

 I'siltaciis tfirret^lrii, Shaw, Mus. Lc-v., p. 217, pi. 53 (1792). 



I'l'zopiini.s J'ormosn.s, Gould, P.d.s. Austr., fol.Vol, V,, pi. 40(1848) ; id., Hiuidbk. Bd-s. Austr., Vol. 



II„ p. 80 (180.5) ; Salvad., Oat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 5!)0 (1891). 

 Pezoporus terrottrif:, Sharpe, Hand-1. Bds., Vol. II., p. 41 (1900). 



Adult MALK. — General colour ahore dark yrass-green : Jorelirad deep reddish-oraityr ; fealhfrs 

 of tlie Jinad aiiil hind neck ivi/h a broad ulripe of black doivn the centre: inter-scapular region, 

 scapulars, upper udny-eorerts and back crossed by alternate bars of yell im- and black on the cealri- of 

 each feallter ; rump and upper tail-coverts similarly but more ■unif irmly barred; quills yn-en on their 

 outer ivebs, blackish-bron'n on their inner irebs and tips, with a larye yelloiv blotch 011 tlu inner icfb 

 of all the feathers, and a, smaller one on the outer tveb, ivith the excepti.on of the first, second and third 

 primaries ; two centre tail-featliers yreen. shaded trith blue on t/ieir onti r u'cbs and crossed u'ifh 

 niimeruns bars of yellotv : the next ou eitlier side yreen on tlie ostler ireb, blackis/i-brou'ii on the inner 

 and similarly barred 7vith yellow ; tlie lateral feathers yelloJt', irreyularly barred uiith dark green on 

 the basal portion, if tlie outer ivebs and- black on the inner ivehs and tips ; centre of the throat yellowish- 

 i/reen : sides of the face and neck and the chest yrass-yreen, ivitli narrow black sinift lines ; breast and 

 sides of the ahdonien. yellowish-green, with irreynlar cross-bars of black, less distinct on the centre of 

 (he abdomen ; under iail-coverls yreenish-yelloir. barred irith black: bill slaty-horn colour : leys ami 

 feet slaty-hroutn : iris bnfty-whi/e. Totid. leujjlli in the jlesli 1 '''i inches, winy 'rS, tail S, bill 0-ti .', 

 tarsus OS. 



Adult femalk. — Similar in plumage to the male. 



Distribution. — 'S,ii\\ South Wales, \'ictoria, South Australia, Western .\ustralia, Tasmania, 

 Islands of Bass Strait. 



Avic. Mag., Third Ser , Vol. II., p. 154 (191 1). 



