KUFHEMA. ^63 



taken from the bottom of a hollow stump in which the female was 

 captured while sitting, is white, and the . shell smooth, and 

 measures : — length 0'85 x 0"67 inch. Eggs usually five for 

 a sitting. 



The breeding season commences in September and lasts the 

 three following months. 



Hob. New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania. 

 {Ramawy.) 



EUPHEMA PULCHELLA, Shaw. 

 Chestnut-shoiilclerecl Grass-Parrakeet. 

 Gould, Handhk. Bds, Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 436, p. 77. 



This lovely species resorts to a hole in the branch of a tree or 

 a fallen log to deposit its eggs, of either a Eucalyptus or 

 Casuarina. The eggs are white, and four in number, a set taken 

 by Mr. Percy Ramsay, at Macquarie Fields in August 1859, vary 

 in form from round to oval and measure as follows : — length (A) 

 0-8 X 0-71 inch; (B) 0-8 x 0-7 inch, rounded; (C) 0-85 x 0-7 inch; 

 (D) 0-88 X 0-72 inch, oval. 



The breeding season commences in August and continues the 

 three following months. 



JIab. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 

 Districts, Interior, Victoria and South Australia. (Ramsay.) 



h~l ECrPHEMA ELEGANS, Gould. 



Elegant Grass-ParraJieet. 

 Gould, Handhk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 433, p. 73. 



" The breeding season of this species is in September and 

 October ; the eggs being from four to seven in number, of a pure 

 white, eleven lines long by eight and a-half lines broad." ( Gould, 

 Handhk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., p. 73.) 



