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end. Three eggs of a set taken in October 1886 at Ivanhoe, 
measure as follows :—length (A) IT x 08 inch ; (B) T03 x 078 
inch; (C) 1-09 x 08 inch. 
This bird breeds during September and the three following 
months. 
ITab. Derby, N.W. Australia, Port Darwin and Port Essington, 
Gulf of Carpentaria, Wide Bay District, New South Wales, 
Interior, Victoria and South Australia, West and South-West 
Australia. (Ramsay ) 
Genus APROSMICTUS, Gould. 
APROSMICTUS SCAPULATUS, Bechstein. 
King Lory. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii, sp. 409, p. 35. 
The hollow spouts of the lofty Eucalyptus trees in South 
Gippsland are frequently tenanted by these birds for the purpose 
of breeding, also in the same locality, others are taken possession of 
by the Gang-gang Cockatoo, Cattocephalon galeatum, but always 
at such a height that rendered it impossible to take the eggs of 
cither species ; on one occasion only was a nest of the former taken 
during my stay there, and this unfortunately contained four young 
birds. An egg of this species in Mr. George Masters’ collection, 
is in form a swollen oval, pure white. Long diameter P27 inch 
short diameter 1 -04 inch. 
Hah. Port Denison, Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence 
Rivers Districts, Now South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. 
{Ramsay.') 
Genus PTISTES, Gould. 
PTISTES ERYTHROPTERUS, Gmelin. 
Red-winged Lory. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 410, p. 37. 
The Red-winged Lory is found both on the north-eastern and 
north-western coast of Australia, and inland as far as the Dawson 
