Breeding Stanley Parraket^Si 
beak light horn-colour; feet dull grey-brown. Total length 
logins., including a tail of 5ins. length. 
Adult Female. — Similar in colour and pattern, but duller 
and with the scarlet areas much restricted— no difficulty in 
picking out the sexes of adult birds. 
Juvenile Plumage. — Mostly nondescript green, but with 
the variegations of the upper plumage obscurely indicated, and a 
little red at base of upper mandible and on the breast. They 
very soon become parti-coloured, but the full brilliance of the 
adult takes a full year to mature. 
It is a native of .South-western Australia. 
The Stanley may be summarised as a small and less 
brightly colouied Rosella, but it must not be assumed that it is 
a soberly-clad species; far from it, for it is a beautiful species and 
much more uncommon in this country than its compatriot the 
Rosella Parrakeet (P. exi)nius). It is less garishly coloured 
than eximius, lacking the white and yellow areas which light 
up this species' plumage; it is merely comparison that warrants 
the term " duller." The Stanley is a beautiful species indeed; 
no sharp or harsh contrasts, with the scarlet, green, blue and 
black of its beautiful plumage softly and exquisitely harmonised. 
Breeding. — The breeding of Stanleys is not difficult and it 
certainly merits the appellation of a free-breeding species; this is 
also equally true of many species of the extensive genus 
Platycercus, and, moreover, the sexes differ sufficiently in 
plumage that the tyro need not err in obtaining a true pair, 
which is more than can be said for that equally free-breeding 
species, the Rosella Parrakeet; but like the latter it is not always 
easy to get a " breeding-pair," for all pairs of imported birds 
are not equally ready to go to nest, and much impatience is often 
occasioned by their taking a season or two to settle down to 
nesting. 
Here I had better digress and briefly discuss the accom- 
modation required for breeding freely the lovely Broadtails, for 
there is really no reason why they should not be almost as 
plentifully bred as the beautiful but common Budgerigar, the 
Undulated Grass Parrakeet of the Australian colonist. Of 
course it is not every aviculturist that finds it convenient to find 
