GREEN PARROT. 
feeding ground. I have never found this species breeding in this part of the 
Island, but they no doubt resort to the lofty trees which abound here, where 
they can. rear their broods in comparative safety. The note is a loud harsh 
screech resembling ‘ tussock,’ sometimes repeated ; also a clear whistling call, 
an imitation of which will almost invariably bring an answer if there are any 
in the vicinity. This species, sometimes called by the settlers ‘ Tussock 
Parrot,’ is much used here for table purposes.” 
A. G. Campbell in the Emu, Vol. II., p. 208, 1903, observed about the 
birds of King Island : “ This species is one of the few of the genus having the 
immature plumage differing from the adult. The adult Green Parrakeet of 
King Island is very large, measuring 15| inches in length. The back is black, 
with indigo-green edgings to the feathers ; the under surface greenish-yellow, 
with under tail coverts washed with crimson. The young birds, probably 
until three years of age, are a uniform smudgy olive green, excepting the blue 
on primaries and cheeks and the crimson on forehead, which, however, are not 
so bright as in the adult. November is the nesting season.” 
The elder Campbell previously in his Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds, 
Vol. II., p. 633, 1901, had noted : “ In the excursion of the Field Naturalists’ 
Club of Victoria, the Parrots were found on Kent Group, not more than sixty 
miles from the nearest Victorian coast. In all examples seen in the Strait 
we noticed none so highly coloured as in the figure shown in Gould’s plate : 
possibly they had not reached perfection, because, like the Crimson (Pennant) 
Parrakeet, the full adult plumage is the progress of seasons.” 
G. A. Keartland writes: “ P. fl.aviventris utters a note very similar to that 
of P. elegans. These birds are numerous on the islands of Bass Strait and in 
Tasmania. I shot several on King Island, and also on islands of the Kent 
Group. They are all very dark green in colour.” 
It will be noticed that the type locality of caledonicus Gmelin can be 
accurately fixed as Adventure Bay, South Tasmania. It has been interesting 
to fix the localities of brownii Kuhl and flavigaster Temminck as both these 
workers give credit to Robert Brown for their knowledge of the species. In 
the Manuscripts written by Robert Brown, preserved in the British Museum 
(Natural History), a specimen was noted as being described by that worker 
from King Island. However it was noted that he also found it on the Derwent 
and also at the Kent Group. Kuhl does not give any exact locality but states : 
“ Multos vidi Londini ,” while Temminck enumerates fourteen so that the 
majority probably came from the Derwent locality. Moreover as Brown did 
not differentiate the specimens in his list when tabulating them as donations, 
we cannot now trace the whereabouts of the exact birds. Hence I designate 
the Derwent as the type locality of P. brownii Kuhl and P. flavigaster 
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