CHAPTER XXXV. 



I HIS bird is as nice as the last is objectionable. 

 It is found in Tasmania, the islands in Bass's Straits, 

 and the southern parts of Victoria, but it is not a 

 common species anywhere. In size it is a little less, 

 and especially more slender, than the Cockateel, which 

 it resembles a good deal in its habits, not only of 

 running swiftly and feeding on the ground, but of nesting 

 very freely in captivity, for which it seems to be par- 

 ticularly well adapted, for it is cleanly, readily tamed r 

 easy to feed, and very apt to nest; nor is it noisy, 

 if it has hitherto shown no aptitude for learning to 

 whistle or speak. 



The general colour is green above and yellow on 

 the under surface, the bill is black, and there is a blue 

 mask on the front of the head, under the eye is a small 

 patch of yellow, the flights and middle tail feathers 

 are blue, so are the shoulders, but there the blue is of 

 a lighter shade. The point of the shoulder is dull red, 

 the vent orange, and the legs grey. 



