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among and alighting upon the branches simultaneously, and 

 with the utmost rapidity, and quitting them in like manner, 

 leaving the deafening sound of their thousand voices echohig 

 through the woods ; while the Plati/cerci rise to the branch 

 after their undulating flight, and leave them again in a quiet 

 manner, no sound being heard but their inward piping note. 

 The eggs of the Triclioglossi are from two to four in 

 number ; those of the Platycerci are more numerous. 



Sp. 444. TRICHOGLOSSUS MULTICOLOR. 

 Blue-bellied Lorikeet. 



Psittacus novce-hollandia, Gmel. Edit. Liun. Syst. Nat., torn. i. p. 316. 



multicolor, Gmel. lb., p. 328. 



semicollaris, Lath. Ind. Orn., torn. i. p. 103. 



cyanogaster, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 413. 



[Conurus) hcematopus, Kuhl, Consp. Psitt., pp. 6, 34. 



h(£matopus, Hahn. Papag., tab. 3. 



hamatodus, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 289. 



Trichofflossus multicolor, Wagl. Mon. Psitt., p. 553. 



swainsonii, Jard. and Selby, 111. Orn., pi. 112. 



hamatopus, Steph. Cont. of Shawns Gen. Zool., vol. xiv. p. 129. 



Australasia nova-hollandice, Less. Traite d'Orn., p. 209. 

 Blue-bellied Parrot, White's Voy., pi. in p. 140. 

 War-rin, Aborigines of New South Wales. 



Trichoglossus swainsonii, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. v. 

 pi. 48. 



This beautiful Lorikeet, so far as is yet known, is almost 

 exclusively an inhabitant of that portion of the Australinn 

 continent lying between South Australia and Moreton Bay : 

 at least I have never heard of its existence in any part west- 

 ward of the former or northward of the latter. It also occurs 

 in Tasmania, but its visits to that island do not appear to be 

 either regular or frequent. 



The flowers of the various species of Eucalypti furnish this 

 bird with an abundant supply of food, and so exclusively is it 



