pbzopokus. ^5 



inch; (B) 0-68 x 0-59 inch ; (0) 0-67 x 0-6 inch; (D) 0'68 x 0-6 

 inch. 



A set in the Macleayan Museum give the following measurements: 

 length (A) 0-71 x 0-6 inch ; (B) 0-69 x 0-6 inch; (C) 0-7 x 0-61 

 inch ; (D) 0-7 x 0-59 inch ; (E) 0'68 x 0-61 inch. 



The breeding season commences in September and lasts till the 

 end of December. 



Hah. Gulf of Carpentaria, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria 

 and South Australia, West and South- West Australia. (^Ramsay.) 



Genus PBZOPOEUS, Illiger. 



PEZOPORUS FORMOSUS, Latham. 

 Ground-Parr akeet. 

 Gould, -Handhk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 441, p. 86. 



" Dr. Ramsay informs me this bird used to breed freely in the 

 neighbourhood of Appin in the long tussocky grass, during the 

 months of September, October, and November, and that the young 

 birds afforded excellent sport about the end of January. A nest 

 before me is composed of rushes and wiry grass, bitten into suitable 

 lengths, and bent round and interwoven here and there into a 

 platform of about half an inch thick ; a piece of Lycopodium also 

 being worked into it. The diameter of the nest is 4 '5 inches. 

 Eggs white, three in number for a sitting, and smooth shelled, length 

 (A) 1-03 X 0-85 inch ; (B) 1-01 x 0-85 inch ; (C) 1-06 x 0-85 inch.!^ 

 Dohr. Mua. Coll." (North, P.L.S., N.S.W., Vol. ii., 2nd Series,, 

 p. 410.) 



With the exception perhaps of Geopsittacus occidentalis, it is the 

 only Australian Parrot known that builds a nest. 



Hub. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 

 Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, 

 Tasmania, West and South- West Australia. (Bamsay.') 



