Incubation lasts from September to January, when two eggs are deposited in the holes of the largest 
euoalypts. 
The female is a shabby, blotched reflection of her mate; all the markings are less distinctly defined, and 
tlic collar on tli*- neck is wanting ; red and yellow about the ear coverts and throat; under wing coverts, red ; 
primaries, brown; secondaries, pale yellow; tertiaries, brown in regular bands; bill, red; tarsi, brown ; irides, red. 
Head and cheeks, royal blue, which colour appears again, though less brilliantly, below the orange-red 
collar on the back of the neck and breast ; throat and abdomen, deep olive green ; vent, greenish yellow ; blue on 
back, splashed w it 1 1 orange ; rest of upper surfaces, bright green ; spines and inner webs of wings and tail, black ; 
basal half <»f inner webs of primaries, yellow; bill, white; feet, black; irides, red. 
Habitats: Derby (North-Wesl Australia), Port Darwin and Port Essington, Cape York, Queensland. 
