RED-SHOULDERED GRASS PARROT. 
shouldered Grass-Parrakeet I almost invariably met with in pairs, on different 
parts of the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, and have shot them on the 
road between Wallerawang and Wolgan, also at Sodwalls on the western 
line. The only place I ever found a small community together was on the 
margins of a swamp, on the late Mr. Mumford’s estate on the top of the Zig- 
zag near Mount Edgecumbe. They were feeding on the pine-like seed-cones 
of a small shrub that grew plentifully on the higher ground, and I found about 
six or seven pairs nesting in the hollow branches of the Gum trees around the 
swamp. This was in December, 1885, and a young bird obtained was sub- 
sequently sent to the Australian Museum. The female has less blue on the 
face, and usually has not the red shoulder spot, but in some specimens, 
probably very old birds, I have seen traces of it on lifting up the scapular. 
It is many years ago since I saw an example of this species.” Mr. E. H. Lane 
recorded the nesting in October, 1882, of a pair at Wambangalang, near Dubbo, 
New South Wales, adding : “ This is the only nest I have found of this species, 
and have observed it only on this occasion. Probably its appearance there 
was due to dry weather, for in the same month and year I obtained a set of 
the eggs of Psephotus multicolor , the first and only time I have observed this 
species in that locality.” 
When Campbell wrote the Nests and Eggs, in 1901, he stated : “ This 
exquisite species is found in the more thickly timbered tracts of South- 
eastern Australia.” The late Mr. T. A. Forbes-Leith stated : “ This lovely 
Grass-Parrakeet wanders to Gippsland in spring, when it is generally seen in 
pairs or perhaps three or four together. I think it was this species we used to 
flush from the rich alluvial flats at the foothills of the Danderongs. . . . The 
eggs in my collection, taken at Berwick, Victoria, are larger in the dimensions 
than the Macquarie Fields set (N.S.W., taken by Mr. Percy Ramsay in 1889) 
and were identified by the wing of the bird shot by the same person who took 
the eggs. However, the finding of another authenticated clutch of these scarce 
eggs will be welcomed with interest.” 
Apparently the species is now extinct in both Victoria and New South 
Wales, but as it was a resident it is probable that the eggs might differ in size. 
I separated the Victorian form subspecifically, but in view of its extinction 
there cannot be much interest in this item, as so few specimens are preserved 
that we cannot exactly determine the differences observed. These were 
detailed : “ N. p. dombraini. Differs from N. p. pulchella in having the red 
scapulars much more pronounced and the blue on the wing not so noticeable. 
Southern Victoria.” 
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