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green; on the sides of the breast, from under the wing, extending 
nearly to the flanks, is an oblong patch of bright yellow ; under tail- 
coverts and flanks bright green, tipped with verditer; bill, tarsi, 
and feet dark-horn colour. ‘Total length 5 inches, wings from 
flexure 3,3,, tarsi ~5, tail 13; bill from cere along the culmen ;%, 
width at base 3. 
Female. The female differs in having the whole of the sides of 
the face, from the base of the upper mandible to the ear-coverts, of 
a bright verditer blue; the outer and lower portions of the ear- 
coverts deep cobalt blue, and in having no trace of red on these 
parts. The spot on forehead just in front of the cere is of a duller 
and more of an orange-red than in the male; the breast and abdomen 
have a slight tinge of yellowish green. 
Hab. Serubs on coast-range near Cardwell, Rockingham Bay, 
Queensland. 
Young. In the not quite adult birds the breast and under surface 
of the body is of a paler green, and has a decided yellow tinge. The 
cheeks are of a paler blue, and void of the red patch so conspicuous 
in the adult male. Bill pale horn-colour, darker at the tip. 
Remarks. This very prettily marked species is the second of the 
genns Cyelopsitta now known to inhabit Australia; it is closely 
allied, although quite distinct from C. coxveni, Gould, being much 
smaller and more beautifully and distinctly marked about the face 
and head. The specimens now gracing the collection of William 
Macleay, Esq., M.L.A., of Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, those in the 
Australian Museum, and in the Dobroyde-Mnseum collection, from 
which the above descriptions have been jointly taken, were procured 
by Mr. K. Broadbent, taxidermist, during a collecting-tour in the 
neighbourhood of Cardwell. They were found feeding on the fruit 
of the native fig-trees, which abound in the dense scrubs and 
brushes clothing the margins of creeks and rivers at the foot of the 
coast-range. It is doubtless the northern representative of Cyclo- 
psitta coxeni, which, I believe, has not been met with north of 
the Brisbane district. 
3. Description of the Eggs and Young of Rallina tricolor, 
from Rockingham Bay, Queensland. By Epwarp P. 
Ramsay, C.M.ZS. 
[Received August 24, 1875.] 
I found this fine species of Rail by no means rare in the dense 
scrubs which fringe the rivers and creeks of the coast range near 
Rockingham Bay ; but although tolerably plentiful, they are always 
very difficult to obtain, on account of the nature of the localities they 
frequent and their retiring disposition. They are seldom to be seen 
without lying in wait for them ; and not always then can one obtain 
a shot, except, perhaps, at such close quarters as would entirely 
destroy them. 
They move about more in the evenings and early morn, and at 
