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procure examples of the eggs, which, according to the testimony 

 of the natives, are white, and seven or eight in number. 



" Its flight is extremely rapid, and at times it momits to a 

 great height in the air." 



The sexes are nearly alike in colour, and may be thus 

 described : — 



Frontal band deep indigo-blue, bounded before and behind 

 with a very narrow line of dull verditer-blue ; lores and 

 circle surrounding the eye dull verditer-blue ; all the upper 

 surface yellowish olive-green ; under surface the same, but 

 lighter, and passing into yellow, tinged with orange on the 

 lower part of the abdomen; under surface of the shoulder 

 indigo-blue; a few of the wing-coverts greenish blue; pri- 

 maries brownish black on their inner webs, and deep indigo- 

 blue on the outer ; two centre tail-feathers bluish green ; the 

 remainder of the feathers brown at the base on the inner 

 webs, green at the base on the outer webs, and largely tipped 

 with bright yellow ; irides very dark brown ; upper mandible 

 dark reddish brown ; sides of the under mandible light yellow, 

 the tip bluish grey ; legs and feet dark brownish grey. 



Total length 8 inches ; wing 4J ; tail 4-| ; tarsi J. 



Sp. 436. EUPHEMA PULCHELLA. 



Chestnut-shouldered Grass-Parrakeet. 



Psittacus pulchellus, Shaw, Nat. Misc., pi. 96. 



(Conurus) pulchellus, Kuhl, Consp. Psitt., pp. 8, 50. 



La Perruche Edwards, Levaill. Hist, des Perr., p. 68, female. 

 Psittacus chrysogaster, Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 97 ? 

 Orange-hellied Parrot, Lath. Gen. Syn., Supp. p. 63. 

 Orange-bellied Parrakeet, Shaw, Gen. ZooL, vol. viii. p. 468. 

 Psittacus edwardsii, Bechst. in Lath. Uebers. der Vog., p. 74. 

 N anodes pulchellus, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 277. 

 Lathamus azureus. Less. Traite d'Orn., p. 205. 

 Euphema pulchella, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. in Abhand., pp. 493, 542. 



Euphema pulchella, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. v. pi. 41. 

 All those who have traversed the " bush " in New South 



