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on which they were laid, the shell being dull and lustreless, and 
having minute shallow pittings all over them ; they measure (A) 
1-82 x 1*49 inch; (B) 1-9 x 1*6 inch. 
The range of this species extends over Eastern and Southern 
Australia and Tasmania, although in the latter colony Gould 
separated the species from C. funereus , under the name of C. 
xanthonotus, but the specific characters are not constant, speci- 
mens having been received from Tasmania that could not be 
distinguished from the continental form, and Dr. Ramsay who 
has examined one of Gould’s types, states they are identical. 
Polytelis Alexandra, Gould. The Princess of Wales Parrakeet. 
Gould , Ilanclbk. Bds . Austr ., Vol. ii., 1865, sp. 407, p. 32. 
Much attention has recently been drawn to this the rarest of 
all the Australian Psittaci. It was first discovered by Mr. F. G. 
Waterhouse at Howell’s Ponds, in Lat. about 17° S. and Long. 
133° E. who accompanied Stuart, the well known Central Austra- 
lian explorer in 1862. Gould described it in the following year 
in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, dedicating it to the 
Princess of Wales, and subsequently figuring it in his Supplement 
to the Birds of Australia, in 1869. 
After a lapse of twenty-eight years since discovering this 
species, Mr. M. Symonds Clark, of Adelaide, South Australia, 
brought under the notice of the public, through the columns of 
the South Australian Register of the 28th of August, 1890, the 
existence of two living specimens of Polytelis alexandrce , which 
had been taken from a nest in the hollow branch of a tree by 
Mr. T. G. Magarey at “ Crown Point,” about fifty miles north of 
“Charlotte Waters,” in Lat. 25° 30' and Long. 133°, about six 
hundred miles south from where the type specimens were obtained. 
Later on Dr. E. C. Stirling, the Director of the Adelaide Museum, 
who accompanied the Earl of Kintore, Governor of South Aus- 
tralia, on his trip across the Continent from north to south in 
1891, succeeded in obtaining two specimens a few miles north of 
“ Newcastle Waters,” and towards the latter end of the same 
year Mr. A. H. C. Zietz, the Assistant Director of the Adelaide 
Museum, acquired the eggs of this species, one of which together 
with a male specimen of P. alexandrce , has recently been received 
by the Trustees of the Australian Museum. 
The egg of P. alexandrce is an ellipse in form, pure white, the 
texture of the shell being very fine, and the surface slightly 
glossy. Length 1*23 inch x 094 inch in breadth. 
The interior of Northern Central Australia constitutes the 
habitat of this species. 
