256 PsiTTAoiDa:. 



River, Queensland ; a set of eggs taken from the hollow branch 

 in a lofty Eucalyptus, by Mr. George Barnard in 1882 at the 

 latter place, are four in number, white, and measure as follows : — 

 length (A) 1-19 x 1 inch ; (B) 1-25 x 0-98 inch ; (C) M3 x 0-95 

 inch; (D) 1 •15x0-92 inch. 



This bird commences to breed in October, and continues the three 

 following months. 



Hah. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 

 Dawson River. {Ramsay.) 



Genus PLATYCERCUS, Vigors. 



PLATYCEROUS BARNARDI, Vigors amd Horsfield. 



Barnard's Parrakeet. 



Gould, Handhk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 412, p. 40. ^JEI X 



" This beautiful Parrakeet is distributed cJver the southern 

 portions of the interior of Australia, and is found frequenting 

 alike the neighbourhood of the Lachlan and Darling Rivers in 

 New South Wales, as well as the ,dense Mallee districts of 

 Victoria and South Australia. In the cultivated portions of the 

 country the birds assemble together in small flocks, and commit 

 great depredations on the crops, consequently a merciless warfare 

 is waged against them by the farmers. For a set of the eggs of 

 this species I am indebted to Mr. Joseph A. Hill, of ' Pine Rise,' 

 Kewell, Victoria, who obtained them, after carefully watching a 

 pair of birds for some time in the vicinity, on September 15th, 

 1887. They were deposited on the decaying wood, about two 

 feet down the hollow limb of a Eucalyptus, at a height of thirty 

 feet from the ground. The eggs are five in number for a sitting, 

 pure white, oval in form, nearly equal in size at both ends, 

 measuring as follows : — length (A) I'll x 0'9 inch; (B) 12 xO-92 

 inch; (0) 1-16 x 0-91 inch; (D) M7 x 0-9 inch ; (E)l •18x0-92 

 inch." (North, P.LS., N.S. W., Vol. ii., 2nd Series, p. 985.) 



