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BLUE-BANDED NANODES, 
Nanodes venustus. — Vig. et Horsf. 
PLATE XXVII. 
Nanodes venustus, Vig. et Horsf. Linn. Trans, b. 15, p. 278. 
— Euphemia chrysostoma, Wag. Mon. Psilt. in Abhand. 
$-c., p. 492 and 544, No. 2 Psitt. chrysostomos, Kuhl, 
Conspec. Psilt. in Nova Acta, S[C., p. 50, No. 78. — Psitt. 
venustus, Temminck in Tram. Linn. Soc. b. 13, p. 121. — 
Blue-banded Parrakeet, Latham's Gen. Hist. ii. p. 188, 
No. 109. 
This pretty species, whose extreme length is 
about nine inches and a-half, of which the tail alone 
measures four, is a native of New Holland and Van 
Diemen’s Land, in which island it is called the Ho- 
bart Ground Parrot, an adjective epithet, which evi- 
dently points to its terrestrial habits, and these are 
further indicated by its lengthened tarsi and toes, 
which in this and Nanodes pulchellus, a nearly al- 
lied and still more beautiful species, closely resemble 
those members, as exhibited in the genus Pezoporus, 
illig., or Proper Ground Parrot. It feeds upon the 
seeds of various grasses, and is generally seen upon 
the ground. As a site for its nest, it selects a hole 
or excavation in the stump of an Eucalyptus or gum- 
