KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 52. N:o |17. 67 
Moulting. — The first specimen in strong moulting. A young male in transitional 
plumage. Over all the back and in the red parts of the wings very many of the 
green feathers of the old plumage are seen. The crown of the head already coloured, 
belly and breast as well. The tail-feathers generally not dropped yet. The green, 
which we see in the lower part of the back, is not due to old green feathers, but to 
the fact that the blue colour is obtained later on by newly obtained greenish-blue 
feathers. Even the new black feathers are sometimes green-coloured. 
The details are: No moulting of the edgings or breaking of feather-parts is to be 
discovered. In general all the new coloured parts seem to be obtained from pins 
(sheaths) (red, green, black), which we see on the crown of the head, the wings and 
the back, which are in strong moulting, while the other parts appear to be either 
fully-moulted (belly and breast) or not moulting yet (tail-feathers). 
Mowulting-season. — Oct., Dec., Jan. One specimen, shot '/2, which is noted as 
moulting, is the finest one, and has the cleanest and newest plumage, it has un- 
doubtedly just moulted. Another male ”/s is already considerably more worn and 
dirty in colour. This is also the case with the specimens from May and June ("”/s). The 
red of the wings in all the later specimens is discoloured to a decidedly more yellow 
tint than for instance in the male-juvenal moulting in Oct., this is especially the 
case in the specimen ””/«. Thus we here probably have only bleaching-phenomena af- 
fecting the red. 
The moulting-season. — From the beginning of Oct. till the end of Jan. 
Ecological. — This parrot, as welcome as it was curious in those sombre woods, 
was found here and there (though not at Mowla Downs) but never in large flocks. 
I saw it in pairs more often than other parrots, the strong bright colours being a 
delight to the eyes. When one was shot, the others not in frequently stayed in the 
neighbourhood of their mate. I observed that many of the specimens shot were 
disseminators of a kind of small seed, which was found sticking on the feathers (the 
tail-plumes). 
Melopsittacus undulatus SHAw. 
Math. handl. n:r 372. 9 ad. Hot Spring, Fitzroy r. 1!/2-:1911; 2 SS Derby, Kimb. "7/10 1910, moult., 
"1/4 1911, partial moult.; S—, SS ad. Meda, Kimb. !7/5 1911, moult. 
Mouwulting. — One male (a rather young one) from '!'/s in strong moulting. Pins 
in the crown of the head, the back, the breast and the lower back etc. Only one 
newly-grown long tail-feather, the other one is still in its sheaths. The corresponding 
wing-feathers (one of each wing) have just been developed out of the sheaths. The 
colour on the back is mixed with a muddy-brown, faded colour. 
One specimen (''/s) showed a peculiar phenomenon (see page 22 fig. 7 B). One long 
blue tail-feather, not yet fully-developed (the other one was grown out) had at a quarter 
of its length a cavity in the vane as if a breaking (moult) of the edge of the feather 
