RED-SIDED PARROT. 
the inner webs ; upper tail-coverts somewhat brighter than the back ; tail much 
paler at the tip and more or less blue on the basal portion of the outer feathers ; 
greater series of the under wing-coverts and quills below dark brown with glossy- 
reflections, with a slight tinge of red on the outer one of the former ; lower aspect 
of tail dark brown at the base and orange-red at the tip. Total length, 450 mm. ; 
culmen 43, wing 282, tail 151, tarsus 27. Bill all black. Figured. Collected 
at the same time and place as the male. 
Nest. “ A hole in a tree growing in the scrub seventy feet from the ground ” (Macgillivray). 
Eggs. “ Clutch two. White, usually nest stained. Oval, smooth, without lustre and 
pitted. 45 mm. by 35. Average eggs are dumpier and more pointed at the 
smaller end ” (Macgillivray). 
Breeding-season. November (Macgillivray). 
In the Emu for January, 1914, p. 187, appeared a note “ New Parrot for 
Australia and Description of Eggs,” by Dr. Wm. Macgillivray, as follows : 
“ Before leaving Broken Hill for a trip at Cape York it was my pleasure to 
receive from Mr. W. M‘Lennan three fine specimens, a male and two females, 
of an Eclectus taken on the Claudie River, which runs into Lloyd’s Bay, on 
the Cape York Peninsula, where these birds are fairly common. So far as I 
can make out, this bird does not differ specifically from the Papuan bird, 
E. pectoralis, which is to be seen alive in the Adelaide Zoological Gardens.” 
On p. 196 was included “ Avium Paradiseum. The following extract is 
from a letter, dated Cape York, 25/11/13, from Dr. Wm. Macgillivray : “ No 
rain yet, and there will not be any general breeding until the wet season com- 
mences. It is unusually dry, and the whole place shows the effects of it, even 
the scrubs. Birds build their nests only to pull them to pieces again or to 
desert them. We have taken several nests of Eclectus, but cannot find that of 
Pseudopsittacus. . . . We have not been into the mountains yet. They are 
covered with scrub and stretch for forty miles, and are all well watered. 
It will take a generation of field naturalists to find all their wealth. There is 
another Parrot near here, but we have not come across it yet — a black one. 
Pseudopsittacus and Eclectus are calling now — one from the opposite side of the 
creek, where there is a nesting-tree, the other from a food-tree just below our 
camp.” 
In connection with the succeeding species I give most of the history of the 
discovery of this magnificent addition to the Australian avifauna, certainly 
the finest bird added since the time of Gould. 
I might here note as an interesting item for Australian Ornithologists 
the ancient history of these Lories. It is now well-known that the male bird 
is practically all green in coloration, the sides, underwing coverts and axiilaries 
being red ; the edge of the wing blue and the primaries dark blue, edged with 
green, and the edges of the tail feathers bluish. The uniformity of the green 
coloration is, however, very noticeable. The females are very boldly parti- 
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