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shews more red than green. The handsome western Rosella 
and Barnardius semitorquatus are the two resident Parrots of 
the district. 
57. PoRPHYROCEPHALUs sPURitJs. Red-capped Parrakeet. 
(Hall's Key, p. 65.) 
Sk. imm. ? . 28.9.99. Tor Bay, Albany. 
In the 'Records of the Australian Museum/ Cat. Bds. 
p. 68 (1891), Dr. Ramsay writes: — ^'Fem. Similar to the 
male, very little smaller, but slightly duller in colours. 
Young (one skin). Similar to adult, but having all the 
colours of duller tints, &c.^^ 
Gould (Handbook Bds. Austr. vol. i. p. 61) speaks of the 
young during the first year of their existence as being of a 
nearly uniform green colour ; nevertheless the hues which 
characterise the adult bird are perceptible at almost any 
age. 
The skin which I obtained is radically different, and sug- 
gests youth ; yet it is that of a breeding bird, first to judge by 
its worn tail-feathers, and secondly by the fact that for days 
it accompanied a highly coloured (male ?) bird in a quiet 
forest. It was probably a young individual which had bred 
early. The following is the description of it : — 
Immature specimen. — Head yellowish green; cheeks lighter; 
faint flush of red on the brownish lores ; back and scapulars 
like head; rump greenish yellow; throat, fore-neck, and 
chest smutty brown, without any trace of violet ; breast, 
flanks, and abdomen purple-blue; wing-coverts bluish green; 
band across under portion of wing pale lemon-coloured. 
The worn tail shews scarcely any white. The bill has the 
posterior two- thirds dull blue, the anterior third whitish. 
An adult skin obtained by exchange shews the lores to be 
bright red (not dusky red) . It appears to be that of a well- 
matured bird. 
58. Barnardius semitorquatus. Yellow- collared Parra- 
keet. (HalFs Key, p. 66) 
Sk. ad. c? & ? . 26.9.99. Denmark. 
A favourite haunt of many individuals of this species was 
