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BLUE-BELLIED LOKIKE$T. 



Trichoglossus Swainsonii.jA'RDiNE and SELBV. 

 PLATE XX. 



Trichoglossus haematodus, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans. 

 voL xv. p. 289 Trichoglossus multicolor, Wagler, 



Mon. Psitt. in Abhand. &c., p. 553 La Peruche a 



tete bleu, Male, UVaill. His. des Per. i. pi. 24 Pe- 

 ruche des Mohiques,^^ PL Enl. No. 743 Blue-bellied 



Parakeet, Brown, III. of Zool. pi. 7; Illus. Orn. pi. 3 



Blue-bellied Parrot, White, Voy. N. S. W., plate at 

 p. 140. 



THIS beautiful species is a native of New Hol- 

 land, where it is found in large flocks, wherever the 

 various species of Eucalypti abound, the flowers of 

 those trees affording an abundant supply of food to 

 this as well as to other species of the Nectivorous 

 PaiTots. According to the observations of Mr Ca- 

 ley, as quoted by Messrs Vigors and Horsfield in 

 their description of the Australian birds in the col- 

 lection of the Linnaean Society, " Flocks of these 

 birds may be seen in the eucalypti-trees, when in 

 flower, in different parts of the country, but in the 

 neatest number near their breeding places." They 

 do not, he adds., eat any kind of grain, even in a do- 



