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obtain a brighter frontal yellow band, a clearer red upon the 
shoulders, and more white upon the tail feathers to become fully 
adult. 
BARNARDIUS ZONARIUS, Shaw. 
Platycercus bauri, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. V., pl. 20. 
Barnardius zonarius, Salvad., Brit. Mus. Cat. Bde, XX., 
p. 560; Hall, ** Key Bds. Austr.," p. 66. 
Adult skin, 19/2/99. The specimen was concluding a moult, 
for the last of the yellow feathers of the breast were “ ‘bursting 
All but the outer three quills have a maculated line upon the 
under surface of the wing. In the South-West this species nips 
off the blossoms of the eucalypts when they have once been 
explored for nectar. It is not improbable that this is the means 
for saving the labour of mining a flower. Thousands of 
blossoms daily fall by this mean 
MELOPSITTACUS UNDULATUS, Shaw, 
pé at wundulatus, Y Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. V., pl. 
44; zug t. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. XX., p. 594; Hall, « Key 
Bds. Aust 
p. 68. 
Skin, wt SR 16/10/98. 
The species flocks into the district in July, and pairs in 
October, as far as noted. The skin received showed an inner 
quill missing from one wing, and one strangely 
The not unusual occurrence of a snake entering the nest of a bird 
oceurred under Mr. Cameron's notice, and the four eggs were 
— by the reptile, after which it slept for several hours in the 
ne 
The following species have been recognised by Mr. Cameron, 
without the skins being forwarded to the writer :— 
Graucalus melanops, La 
Podargus phalenoides, Gould (1). 
Eupodotis australis, Gray. 
Dromeus nove-hollandie, Latham. 
Cherameca leucosternum, Gou 
Plectrorhynchus lanceolatus,* Gould. 
Gymnorhina dorsalis, Camp. 
Rhipidura tricolor. Vieill. 
er 
* Not yet recorded as a W.A. species. 
