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stationary in New South Wales, but I am not certain that it 

 is so in tlie more southern country of Tasmania, where it is 

 known by the name of the Musk-Parrakeet, from the pecuUar 

 odour it emits. 



It is a noisy species, and with its screeching note keeps up 

 a perpetual din around the trees in which it is located. Dur- 

 ing its search for honey it creeps among the leaves and smaller 

 branches in the most extraordinary manner, hanging and 

 clinging about them in every possible variety of position. It 

 is so excessively tame that it is very difficult to drive it from 

 the trees, or even from any particular branch. Although 

 usually associated in flocks, it appears to be mated in pairs, 

 which at all times keep together during flight, and settle side 

 by side when the heat of the sun prompts them to shelter 

 themselves under the shade of the more redundantly leaved 

 branches. 



The eggs, which are dirty white and two in number, are of 

 a rounded form, one inch in length and seven-eighths of an 

 inch in breadth. Those I obtained were taken from a hole in 

 a large Eucalj/ptus growing on the Liverpool range. 



The sexes present no difference in colour, and the young 

 assume the plumage of the adult at a very early age. 



Forehead and ear-coverts deep crimson red ; at the upper 

 part of the back a broad patch of light chestnut brown ; the 

 remainder of the plumage grass-green ; on the flanks a spot 

 of orange ; primaries and secondaries black, broadly margined 

 on the external webs with grass- green ; base of all but the 

 inner webs of the lateral tail-feathers deep red at the base, 

 passing into yellow and tipped with grass-green ; bill blackish 

 brown, passing into reddish orange at the tip ; cere and orbits 

 olive-brown ; irides buff, surrounded by a narrow circle of 

 yellow. 



