V°'- ^i"-l Obituary Notice. IO«) 



knowledge of the country, as the expedition under Mr. Conigrave's 

 command went into depot for several weeks at the spot where 

 Mr. Burns eventually met his death. When attempting to 

 recover wounded Ducks from a small lily-covered lagoon, Mr. 

 Burns became exhausted, and. despite every endeavour on the 

 part of Bishop Trower, was drowned. The body was sub- 

 sequently taken in an open boat by the bishop to Wyndham, a 

 distance of 70 miles, and was interred in the local cemetery, Mr. 

 Burns had been a member of the Union for the past three years, 

 and the sincere sympathy of its members is extended to his 

 relatives. 



Description of New Parrot. 



By (Dr.) W. Macgillivray, R.A.O.U., Broken Hill, N.S.W. 



The discovery of a new and distinct addition to our Parrakeets is 

 due to the enthusiasm and energy of another member of our 

 Union, Mr. M'Lennan. When collecting at Cape York, 1910-1912, 

 he heard several times of a Parrot inhabiting the country in the 

 vicinity of the Pascoe River, and which, from various descriptions 

 given, he thought to be an E elect us, or some allied form. He pre- 

 vailed upon me to allow him to proceed to the Pascoe River, which 

 enters the sea on the East Coast of Cape York Peninsula, about 20 

 miles, as the Crow flies, to the north of Lloyd's Bay. When 

 proceeding up the river in search of a suitable camping-place, one 

 of the first objects which attracted his attention was a strange 

 Parrakeet, which Ifew from the scrub lining the banks of the 

 river. Its call and flight were unfamiliar to him. 



I have now received from him a male and female of what seems 

 to me not only a new species, but a new genus. It may be placed 

 in the family Cyelopsittaeidce. 



Although partaking in general of the characters of this family, 

 and of the two genera, Neoj)sittactis and Cyclopsittacus, of which it 

 is composed, it differs sufficiently, in my opinion, from both to 

 warrant it being placed in a distinct genus, for which I propose the 

 name Pseudopsittaeus, the distinctive characters being : — Bill — y 



upper mandible crimson, merging into orange-yellow at the tip ; 

 lower mandible dark brown, gonys moderately broad and flattened, 

 with one distinct central ridge ; nostrils bare. In the female the 

 bill is wholly olive-brown. Tail short ; rectrices twelve, and of 

 equal length. 



Pseudopsittaeus maclennani, gen. and sp. nov. v 



Male. — Forehead, lores, cheeks, and ear coverts rose-red ; the 

 posterior feathers of the ear coverts tipped with blue ; crown, 

 occiput, and nape cobalt blue. The rest of the upper surface grass 

 • green, with the exception of a small chestnut-red patch on the 

 tertiary coverts of each wing, and the rectrices, which are 

 yellowish-green with brown shafts, and a brighter green edging to 

 the webs. The chest, abdomen, and flanks a lighter shade of green 



