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in having the bases of the secondaries and some of the prima- 

 ries white. 



Total length 11 inches; wing 5; tail 6J; tarsi f. 



Genus EUPHEMA, Wagler. 



The members of this genus are exclusively Australian, 

 and appear to be confined to the extra-tropical parts of the 

 country, no species having yet been seen from the north coast, 

 while the seven species known are abundantly distributed 

 over the southern portions of the continent, and two of them 

 over Tasmania. 



Sp. 432. EUPHEMA CHRYSOSTOMA. 



Blue-banded Grass-Parrakeet. 



Psittacus chrysostomus, Kuhl, Consp. in Psitt. in Nova Acta, vol. x. 



p. 58, pi. 1. 

 Psittacus venustus, Temm. in Linn. Trans., vol. xiii. p. 121. 

 Blue-banded Parrakeet, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. ii. p. 188. 

 Nanodes venustus, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans, vol. xv. p. 274. 

 Euphema chrysostoma, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. in Abhand., vol. i. pp. 492, 



544, and 707. 

 Conwus chrysostomus, Bourj. de St.-Hil. Perr., tab. 10. 



Euphema chrysostoma, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. v. 

 pi. 37. 



This bird is a summer resident in Tasmania, arriving in 

 September and departing again in February and March. 

 During its sojourn it takes up its abode in such open and 

 thinly-timbered localities as are favourable for the growth of 

 various kinds of grasses, upon the seeds of which it almost 

 solely subsists. Among the places in which I observed it to 

 be most abundant were Bruni Island, Sandby Bay imme- 

 diately adjoining Hobart Town, New Norfolk, Spring Hill 

 in the interior, the banks of the Tamar, and on Flinder's 

 Island in Bass's Straits. As a matter of course it is also 



