ORANGE-BELLIED PARRAKEET 189 
colouring, and to be identified by a large spot of 
rich orange in the centre of the abdomen, which other- 
wise is greenish yellow. 
It has a fairly wide range south of the town. I 
shot one at the Salt Works on September 6th, 1902, 
and Mr. G. H. Broome another, from a flock of five, 
in samphire scrub (like that at the Salt Works), near 
the mouth of Bream Creek, on June i6th, 1912. 
But its centre for this district must be about Para- 
parap. In January, 1902, when a late hay-crop was 
being brought in on Mr. G. C. Noble's Merrijig 
Estate, it was numerous, haunting, in small flocks, 
the grass-strips along the edges of the field. I saw 
a single bird at Anglesea in September of the same 
year, and in the late spring of 191 2 a pair on Addiscott. 
The birds appear to feed chiefly on seeds, and spend 
most of their time on the ground, whence they rise 
abruptly, hardly till one walks on them, to settle a 
little farther on, or fly to some neighbouring dead 
tree. They have somewhat of the quick-beating, 
yet undulating, flight of the Rosella, and at times are 
capable of flying for a mile or more. I have watched 
such a flight by a single bird. 
Master Cecil Evans told me, in October, 191 2, of 
a nest which had been chopped out of a dead tree 
at Jan Juc in the spring of 191 1. 
