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in the hollow bramch of a Eucalyptus; Eggs -white, measuring as 

 follows:— length (A) 1-08 x 0-9 inch ; (B) 1-06 x 0-9 inch ; (C) 

 1-05 X 0-87 inch ; (D) 1-03 x 0-85 inch. 



This species breeds during September and the three following 

 months. 



Hah. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 

 Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South 

 Australia, Tasmania. (Samsay.) 



i- ~7 PLATYCERCUS ICTEROTIS, Temminck. 



Tello-w- cheeked Parrakeet. 

 Oould; Handbk. Bds. Aust , Vol. ii., sp. 424, p. 58. 



" The eggs, which are white and six or seven in number, are 

 eleven lines long and nine and a-half lines broad ; they are 

 deposited in the holes of large trees without any nest.'' (Gould, 

 Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., p. 58.) 



Hob. South Australia, and West Australia. (^Ramsay.') 



Genus PUEPUEEICEPHALUS, Bonaparte. 



1-9. PURPUREICEPHALUS PILEATUS, Yigors. 



(Platycercus spurius, Kuhl.) 

 Red-capped Parrakeet. 

 Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust, Vol. ii., sp. 425, p. 60. 



"The Red-capped Parrakeet is an inhabitant of Western 

 Australia, where it is rather numerously dispersed over the 

 country about King George's Sound. The breeding season extends 

 over the months of October, November, and December. The 

 hollow dead branch of a gum- or mahogany-tree is the place usually 

 chosen by the female for the reception of her eggs, which are 

 milk-white and from seven to nine in number, about an inch and 



