i86 Btecdiiio S'wainson s Lorikeets. 
webs of the secondaries are dull ash-grey ; the skin round eyes 
is blackish, with a suspicion of red round the inner edge; bill 
darkish-horn colour, paler towards the tip ; cere round nostrils 
blackish, which is also the colour of the legs and feet. 
Young $ : Similar but distinctly browner, and the shaft 
streaks are regular and distinct both on the upper (including the 
whole of the head and neck) and lower surfaces and the margins 
of the feathers much lighter brown than those of the male ; her 
ashen wing marking are more obscure and distinctly browner ; 
the whole of her plumage has the appearance of being finely 
lined with brown, which makes her very distinct from her 
brother; she is also distinctly smaller and quite efifeminate in 
appearance comparatively. 
This account is already too long and I must leave any 
further remarks till a later date, when if all goes well, I shall 
hope to describe age, etc., at which they assume adult plumage. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. 
Pr.ATE I. (I) Adult ?, young 3 and ? reading left to right. 
(2 and 3) Young ? , seventeen days old. First da}- out of nest. 
Pr.ATK II. (I and 5) Young $ . 
(2 and 4) Young S . 
(3) Adult i. Twenty-one days old. 
Pr<ATE III. (I) Left figure, young s ; right figure, young ?. 
(2) Young i . 
(3) Young 3, left; young ?, right. 6| weeks old. 
BrecMna Swaineon's Xonkccts. 
( Tt ichoglossus nov(B-hollaiidia?) 
By Miss C. Rosa Little. 
As I have once or twice previously given accounts of my 
Swainson's Lorikeets, it may be of interest to readers of Bird 
Notes if I give a further record. 
This season I have been more successful than ever with 
them ; the weather which has proved so disastrous to general 
bird breeding has apparently not inconvenienced them at all. 
In December last, the same pair that had bred before cut a hole 
in the wooden roof of their cage and nested between this and an 
outside roof of corrugated iron. There was very little space for 
them in this upper attic, so I raised the iron roof a little and, on 
