266 PSITTAdDa. 



Genus LATHAMUS, Lesson. 



LATHAMUS DISCOLOR, Shaw. 



Swift Lorikeet. 



Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol ii. sp. 443, p. 90. 



The Swift Lorikeet usually lays two white eggs, in the hollow 

 of a dead branch of a Eucalypt. Specimens taken near Hobart, 

 Tasmania, measure as follows: — length (A) 1-05 x 0-87 inch; 

 (B) 1-05 X 0-86 inch. 



This species breeds during the months of October, November, 

 ■and December. 



Hah. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 

 Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South 

 Australia, Tasmania. (Ramsay.) 



Genus TKICHOGLOSSUS, Vigors and Horsfield. 



TRIOHOGLOSSUS NOV^-HOLLANDI-ffi, Gmelin. 



(T. multicolor, Gmelin.) 



BlTie-beUied Lorikeet. 



Gould, Hcmdbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 444, p. 93. ^232^ ^■ 



This species lays its eggs two in number, on the decayed wood 

 in a hole of a dead branch of a Eucalyptus. Two average 

 specimens received from Mr. Geo. Barnard of the Dawson River, 

 Queensland, are dull white, one specimen (A) being a true oval, 

 the other (B), inclined to be somewhat pyrif orm in shape. Length 

 (A) 1-1 X 0-90 inch ; (B) 1-11 x 0-91 inch. 



The usual breeding season of this species is during October and 

 the three following months, but Mr. J. A. Boyd found a nest on 



