86 BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



Genus PEZOPORUS, Illiger. 



Of tliis terrestrial form but one species is known, which is 

 very generally distributed over the temperate portions of Au- 

 stralia, the islands in Bass's Straits, and Tasmania. 



Sp. 441. PEZOPORUS PORMOSUS. 



GROUNb-PAKRAKEET. 



Psittacus formosus, Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 103. 



terrestris, Shaw, Miis. Lev., p. 217, pi. 53. 



{Conur us) formosus, Kuhl. Consp. Psitt.,''pp. 7, 43. 



Pen-uclie ingambe, Le Vaill. Hist. Nat. des Perr., torn. i. p. 66, pi. 32. 



Pezoporus formosus, 111. Prod. Syst. Manim. et Av., p. 201. 



rufifrons, Bourj. de St.-Hd. Supp. to Le Vaill. Hist. Nat. des 



Perr., pi. 9. 

 Boo-run-dur-dee, Aborigines northward of Perth in Western Australia- 

 Djar-doon-gvir-ree, Aborigines around Perth. 

 Djul-hat-la, Aborigines southward of Perth. * 



Ky-lor-ing, Aborigines of King George^s Sound. 

 Goolingnang, Aborigines near Sydney, New South Wales. 

 Swamp- Parrakeet, Colonists of Tasmania. 

 Ground- Parrakeet, Colonists of New South Wales and Western 



Australia. 



Pezoporus formosus, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. v. pi. 46. 



The Ground-Parrakeet is diffused over the whole of the 

 southern portions of Australia, including Tasmania, wherever 

 localities exist suitable to its habits. I also procured both 

 adults and young on Plinder's Island, where I found them 

 breeding on the grassy plains which cover the greater portion 

 of that island. So far as I could learn, it is everywhere a 

 stationary species. Having very frequently met with it in a 

 state of nature, I am enabled to state that in its actions it 

 differs from every other known species of its family. Whether 

 the power of perching is entirely denied to it or not I am un- 

 certain, but I never saw it fly into a tree, nor could I ever 



