PARRAKEET COCK&T 00.— NympUcus Novce Holldiului^ 



boautirul anil elegant lii'rrl is one of its denizens. I have, it is true, seen it cross the great 

 mountain rant;es"au<l breed on the flats between them and the sea ; still, this is an unusual 

 occurrence .and the few thus found, compared to the thousands obser\-ed on the plains 

 stretchino- 'from the interior side of the mountains, proves that they have, as it were, 

 overstepped their natural boundary. 



Its ran"e is extended over the whole of the southern portion of Australia, and being 

 strictly a migratory bird, it makes a simultaneous movement southward to within one 

 hundred miles of the coast in Septemlier, arriving in the York district near Swan Eiver 

 iu Western Australia precisely at the same time that it appears in the Liverpool plains in 

 the eastern portion of the country. After breeding and rearing a numerous progeny, the 

 whole again retire northwards in February and jMarch, but to wliat degree of latitude 

 towards the tropics they wend their way I have not been able satisfactorily to ascertain. 

 I have never received it from Port Essington or any other port in the same latitude, which, 

 however, is no proof that it does not visit that part of the continent, since it is merely 

 the country near the coast that has yet lieen traversed. In all probability it will be found 

 at a little distance in the interior wherever there are situations suitable to its habits, but 

 doubtless at approximate periods to those in which it occurs in ZS'ew South Wales. 



