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texture of the shell being very fine and nearly lustreless. 

 An average specimen measures 0'88 inch by 0*77 inch. 

 This is the only occasion on which I have known the eggs 

 of this species to have been taken. 



Mr. White captured the female while sitting, and suc- 

 ceeded in keeping her in an aviary for several years. 



3. Glossopsittacus porphyrocephalus (Dietr.) ; Salvad. 

 Cat. B. XX. p. 70. 



The range of the Purple-crowned Parrakeet extends over 

 the southern portioas of South and West Australia. In the 

 immediate neighbourhood of Adelaide it is, with the exception 

 of Trichoglossus pusillus, the most common species of the 

 genus, but its eggs are seldom obtained owing to the inacces- 

 sible and lofty trees that it usually selects as a breeding-place. 

 At Mt. Barker on the 18th of September, 1886, Mr. White 

 and his son found a nesting-place of this species in the hollow 

 limb of a Eucalypt, and after enlarging the narrow entrance 

 to it, much to the annoyance and evident displeasure of the 

 parent birds, discovered three young ones and an addled egg 

 on the decaying wood at the bottom of the cavity. During 

 the same month Mr. White was also successful in obtaining 

 near Blakeston, in the Mt. Lofty Ranges, two fresh eggs of 

 this Parrakeet, from a hole in the green limb of a lofty 

 Eucalyptus. The eggs are white, and rounded in form, the 

 shell being smooth and perfectly lustreless; they measure 

 0-83 inch in length, by 0'68 inch in breadth. 



XVII I. — A feio Observations on some Species o/ Phylloscopus. 

 By W. Edwin Brooks. 



In the ' Proceedings of the United States National Museum ' 

 for 1892 is a paper by Dr. Siejneger, entitled " Notes on 

 a Collection of Birds made by Harry V. Hensonin the Island 

 of Yczo, Japan," of which several relate to Phylloscopus 

 borealis, Bias, and Phylloscopus xanthodryas, Swinhoe, 

 These two birds Dr. Stejueger proposes to unite, and terms 

 the latter P. borealis xunthodryas, which is thus made to be 

 only what is termed a subspecies of P. borealis. 



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