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end. Three eggs of a set taken in October 1886 at Ivanhoe, 

 measure as follows : — length (A) 1-1 x O'S inch ; (B) 1-03 x 0-78 

 inch; (C) 1-09 x 0-8 inch. 



This bird breeds during September and the three following 

 months. 



Hah. Derby, N.W. Australia, Port Darwin and Port Essington, 

 Gulf of Carpentaria, Wide Bay District, New South Wales, 

 Interior, Victoria and South Australia, West and South-West 

 Australia. (^Ramsay.) 



Genus APEOSMICTUS, Gould. 



APROSMIOTUS SCAPULATUS, Bechstein. 

 King Lory. 

 Gould, Handhk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii , sp. 409, p. 3.5. 



The hollow spouts of the lofty Eucalyptus trees in South 

 Gippsland are frequently tenanted by these birds for the purpose 

 of breeding, also in the same locality, others are taken possession of 

 by the Gang-gang Cockatoo, Gallocephalon galeatum, but always 

 at such a height that rendered it impossible to take the eggs of 

 either species ; on one occasion only was a nest of the former taken 

 during my stay there, and this unfortunately contained four young 

 birds. An egg of this species in Mr. George Masters' collection, 

 is in form a swollen oval, pure white. Long diameter 1 -27 inch 

 short diameter 1 -04 inch. 



Hah. Port Denison, Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence 

 Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. 

 (Mamsai/.^ 



Genus PTISTES, Oould. 



if- PTISTES ERYTHROPTERUS, Gmelin. 



Eed--win.ged Lory. 

 Gould, Handbh. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 410, p. 37. 3Z^ ^. 



The Red-winged Lory is found both on the north-eastern and 

 north-western coast of Australia, and inland as far as the Dawaon 



