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A Further Note on Sexing Rosetlas. 
still keeping the proud Turkey-cock posture, its wings dropped 
and tail spread somewhat laterally and shakes its body about. 
It is a lateral shake, somewhat resembling the demeanour of 
a petulant child, though there is no petulance with the bird, 
but rather coquettish pi'ide. This movement or attitude is 
always preceded and followed by the prancing runs. 
The whole period the bird had been in the aviary, the 
performances have been gone through many times daily — the 
playground was commenced within an hour of the bird being 
put out of doors, though with those kept all together in an 
indoor flight no playground has been formed. 
1 am in hopes of seeing a completed nest in the aviary, 
even if they do not get as far as eggs, for I have noticed 
the male beginning to bend over the stems of a clump, of 
tall grass. In a state of nature the nest is placed within a 
few inches of the ground, and the surrounding grass is ]jent 
down and woven into the nest, not only making it almostj 
watertight, but also effectively screening it — and I am hoping 
to sec the completed nest in due course. 
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A Further Note on Sexing Rosellas. 
By De. L. Lovell-Keays. 
Through the kindness and courtesy of our member, Mr. 
Shore Bailey, I am enabled to handle the dead body of a known 
hen Rosella, and examine it more thoroughly than the living 
specimen. He points out that the green spot is not present, 
but that the barring of the wing (under surface) is. The green 
spot is, in this obvious hen bird, conspicuous by its absence, 
although a few of the red feathers on the nape are edged with 
green. It is satisfactory to get this point cleared up once 
and for all. On carefully examining the under surface of the 
wing I find the white entirely absent on the first and second 
primaiies. On the third it is just discernable, and on the 
fourth distinct. It is largest on the fifth, and gradually gets 
smaller till the tenth, where it is still quite distinct and nearly 
semicircular in form. The barring is continued very faintly 
over the first three secondaries. The poslLion of the bar is 
almost the middle of the flight feathers. 
