YELLOW-CHEEKED PARROT. 
tipped with iridescent blue-and-white tips. Bill bluish- grey, eyes brown, feet hazel. 
Figured. Collected in the Wongan Hills, West Australia, on the 11th October, 1903. 
Immature. Entire back, scapulars, inner upper wing-coverts and outer webs of secondary- 
quills pale green ; marginal upper wing-coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 
and outer webs of the primary-quills blue, inner webs of the quills dark brown 
becoming paler towards the apical portion more especially on the outer webs ; 
middle tail-feathers bronze-green, the outer ones pale blue with white tips and 
dark brown on the inner webs ; hinder crown and nape slightly darker than the 
back, fore part of the head and sides of the crown tinged with red ; sides of neck 
and hind-neck more or less grey ; sides of the face pale lemon-yellow ; fore-neck, 
breast, abdomen, and sides of the body green with red margins to the tips of the 
feathers and more or less tinged with yellow ; under tail-coverts salmon-pink ; under 
wing-coverts pale blue, the greater series and under-surface of the quills pale brown 
with glossy reflections ; lower aspect of tail brown on the central portion, iridescent 
blue on the outer feathers which have white tips. Collected on the Margaret River, 
South-west Australia, on the 3rd October, 1912. 
Nest. A hole in a tree. 
Eggs. Clutch, three to six or seven. White. 24 mm. by 20 (Gould). 
Breeding-season. August to November. 
I can trace no early history of this species ; there is evidence to prove however 
that it was collected prior to 1820 by some of the French voyageurs, as when 
Kuhl described it in that year from a specimen in the collection of Temminck, 
he noted that there were two in the Paris Museum. 
Mr. Tom Carter has handed me the following note : “ The Yellow- 
cheeked Parrot is commonly distributed through the South-west. They 
were never seen by me in the Gascoyne district, and I cannot give their northern 
(coastal) range. They are abundant 100 miles inland from Perth, about 
Kellerberin, on the Goldfields Railway, and are also common on the south 
coast, Albany and Denmark, and about Broome Hill. At my stables and 
stockyards there they fed about like sparrows, picking out the undigested 
grains of corn from the horse and cow droppings, and also getting inside the 
horses’ feed boxes, in order to pick the com out of the chaff put in the boxes 
for horse feed. They were so tame that at anyone’s approach they would 
perch on the rails of the yards, and allow one to pass within a few feet, without 
moving. They occasionally attack fruit in the orchards, but do not system- 
atically do so. The plumage is very varied, and I think it is probably three 
years before full plumage is obtained. A good many adult males were 
procured, and others were seen about Broome Hill with broad scarlet edgings 
to the whole of the mantle feathers. At Katanning (12 miles distant) a brood 
of young fledged out, mostly white in plumage with yellow wings. The 
breeding season commences in September and continues through October 
and November. Three eggs often seem to form a clutch, but sometimes six 
and occasionally seven. Sept. 6, 1906, two clutches of three eggs each noted 
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