THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Adult female. Differs in the absence of the red on the side of the face, this part being 
bluish-green. Wing 84. Figured. Collected at Rockingham Bay, Queensland. 
Nest. A hole in a tree. 
Eggs. Clutch three to four, white at first, but becoming discoloured by the wood dust 
in the nest (Campbell). 
Breeding -season. “ September to November ” (Campbell). 
In the Proceedings of the Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1875, p. 602, Ramsay, 
writing on the Birds of Queensland, included : 
“ Cydopsilta madeayana Ramsay, ‘Sydney Morning Herald 5 Newspaper, 
Nov. 15, 1874. 
“ This interesting and prettily-marked species was discovered first by 
Mr. K. Broadbent near Cardwell, and found feeding on the native figs with 
which the scrubs abound. The specimens in the Dobroyde Collection are 
the only fully adult specimens obtained. I believe I forwarded to the Society 
a full description of the adults, male and female, and the young, several 
months ago. In case I should not have done so, I enclose a slip from the 
‘ Sydney Morning Herald,’ in which a portion of my notes appeared about 
the same time. [Ed. note. — This description was never received. The 
species appears to be the same as C. maccoyi Gould, P.Z.S. 1875, p. 314, and 
Birds of New Guinea , pt. i., pi. 10.]” 
Then followed a detailed description and the following “ Remarks . — 
This very prettily-marked species is the second of the genus Cydopsilta now 
known to inhabit Australia ; it is closely allied, though quite distinct from 
C. coxeni Gould, being much smaller and more beautifully and distinctly 
marked about the face and head. The specimens now gracing the collection 
of William Macleay, Esq., M.L.A., of Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, those in the 
Australian Museum and in the Dobroyde Museum collection, from which 
the above descriptions have been jointly taken, were procured by Mr. K. 
Broadbent, taxidermist, during a collecting tour in the neighbourhood of 
Cardwell. They were found feeding on the fruit of the native fig-trees, which 
abound in the dense scrubs and brushes clothing the margins of creeks and 
rivers at the foot of the coast range. It is doubtless the northern representative 
of Cyclopsitta coxeni , which, I believe, has not been met with north of the 
Brisbane district.” 
The editorial reference to Gould’s description was correct, the same species, 
from the same lot, having been sent to him by Mr. Waller, while even 
previously it had been described by McCoy, again from the same collector’s 
material. 
It would appear that Broadbent got quite a number and sold them to 
everyone, and the beauty of the small Parrot attracted three recipients so 
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