364 Psix'iAcwM. 



Sab. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 

 Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South 

 Australia, West and South- West Australia. {Ramsay ) 



EUPHEMA BOURKII, Gould. 

 Bourke's Grass-Parrakeet. 

 Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust, Vol. ii., sp. 438, p. 80. 



Bourke's Grass Parrakeet is very sparingly distributed through- 

 out the timbered back country of the interior of New South Wales. 

 It usually breeds in the hollow limbs of the Eucalyptus or 

 Casuarina, where it deposits its eggs which are white, oval in 

 form, and four in number on the decaying wood ; an average 

 specimen from a set taken by Mr. K. H. Bennett on the 20th of 

 August 1884, measures 0-9 inch in length by 0-7 inch in breadth. 



The breeding season commences in August aryl continues 

 during the three following months. 



Hah. New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia. 

 {Ramsay.) 



Genus MELOPSITTACUS, Gould. 



MELOPSITTACUS UNDULATUS, Shaw. 

 Warbling Grass-Parrakeet. 

 Gould, Handhh. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 439, p. 81. 



The Warbling Grass Parrakeet arrives in New South Wales 

 and Victoria early in September to breed, and departs again in 

 February, in some seasons it is seen in countless numbers covering 

 the ground, where it obtains its food among the various grasses. 

 It deposits its eggs, which are white and usually six in number, in 

 the hollow branch of a tree. A set taken by Mr. W. I. Liscombe 

 in September 1884, measure as follows : — length (A) 0'7 x 0'6 



