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the Herbert River, Queensland, containing young ones in the 

 month of May 1888. 



Hah. Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port 

 Denison, Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and 

 Clarence Rivers Districts, New South "Wales, Interior, "Victoria 

 and South Australia, Tasmania. {Ramsay.) 



TRICHOGLOSSUS CHLOROLEPIDOTUS, Euhl. 



Scaly-breasted Lorikeet. 



Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust , Vol. ii., sp. 446, p. 96. JU^- ''-?• 



" The Scaly-breasted Lorikeet is plentifully dispersed over the 

 greater part of Queensland and the northern portion of New 

 South "Wales, but is seldom found farther south than the Murray 

 River, the natural boundary of the latter colony. Mr. George 

 Barnard of Coomooboolaroo, who has contributed largely towards 

 a knowledge of the nidification of many of the birds of Central 

 Queensland, informs me that he found this species breeding in the 

 hollow spouts of the lofty Eucalypts in the neighbourhood of the 

 Dawson River, and that all the nests, seven in number, taken by 

 his sons, unlike those of any other member of the family, 

 each contained but a single egg, which in several instances was in a 

 very advanced state of incubation. Two eggs taken during the 

 month of November are pure white, in form oval, slightly tapering 

 at one end, the texture of the shell being fine and smooth, but 

 without any lustre. Length (A) 0-95 x 0-79 inch ; (B) 0-97 x 0-8 

 inch." (North. P.L.S., N.S. W., Vol. ii., 2nd Series, p. 986.) 



Hah. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, "Wide Bay Distr.ict, 

 Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New 

 South "Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, {Bamsayl) 



