THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Avifauna, I hasten to bring it under the notice of the Zoological Society, 
and to name the bird Cyclopsitta coxeni , in honour of the gentleman who 
has been the first to make us aware of the existence of the species.” 
Then followed a description, succeeded by the “ Ee?narJcs . — In the note 
accompanying the drawing, Mr. Coxen states that two examples of this 
bird were procured by Mr. Waller from a sawyer, who found them in a 
scrub on the east coast, where he was at work, and where he observed the 
species moving about in small flocks of from fifteen to twenty in number, 
and by no means shy.” 
The fuller history does not add much to our knowledge. Thus Mr. Waller 
wrote : “ The history of the bird, so far as I can learn, is, that during the 
month of June, 1866, it was shot by a sawyer near a mountain scrub, about 
thirty miles from Brisbane. The man states that he had seen a flock in the 
neighbourhood for some weeks, and had shot several for a pudding ; being 
somewhat interested in ornithology, and observing a difference between them 
and the ordinary Green Parrakeet, he skinned three or four, two of which 
he brought me ; the others were, unfortunately, destroyed.” 
Apparently nothing whatever is known of the life-history of this bird. 
In the Austral Avian Record , Vol. I., p. 147-8, 1913, is recorded : 
“ Description based on a painting sent by Mr. Coxen, of Brisbane, and now 
in the possession of G. M. Mathews, of birds killed on the east coast. 
There are two specimens received from Gould in the British Museum.” 
The first part of this statement is not correct; the painting I have is of 
0. leadbeateri. 
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