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base, with the inner webs black and the tips yellow. The female is somewhat 
paler. 
Turquoisines inhabit the south east of Australia, not ranging far inland, 
and being generally found in family-parties of from six to eight, although 
when the grass is in seed they assemble, with others of their kindred, in large 
flocks, to feast on their favourite food. These parrots are largely terrestrial 
TUKQUOISINE GRASS-PARRAQGET (§ Uat. size). 
in their habits; and although the turquoisine nests in hollows of trees, other 
species select clefts of rocks in which to lay their eggs. The number of 
the latter is generally eight; and the male is said to render no assistance in 
incubation. 
In New Zealand and some of the neighbouring islands this group of parrots is 
represented by the genus Gyanorhamphus, characterised by the upper mandible of 
the beak being black at the tip and pearly grey at the base; the red-fronted 
parraquet ( G. novce-zealandice) being a well-known species. 
