256 
PSITTACID2E. 
River, Queensland ; a set of eggs token from the hollow branch 
in a lofty Eucalyptus, by Mr. George Barnard in 1882 at the 
latter place, are four in number, white, and measure as follows : — 
length (A) M9 x 1 inch ; (B) 1 -25 x 0-98 inch; (C) M3 x 0-95 
inch; (D) M5x 0 - 92 inch. 
This bird commences to breed in October, and continues the three 
following months. 
Ilab. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Dawson River. {Ramsay.) 
Genus PLATYCEECUS, Vigors. 
PLATYCERCUS BARNARDI, Vigors andHorsfieU. 
Barnard’s Parrakeet. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Ausl., Yol. ii., sp. 412, p. 40. 
“ This beautiful Parrakeet is distributed over the southern 
portions of the interior of Australia, and is found frequenting 
alike the neighbourhood of the Lachlan and Darling Rivers in 
New South Wales, as well as the dense Mallee districts of 
Victoria and South Australia. In the cultivated portions of the 
country the birds assemble together in small'Hocks, and commit 
great depredations on the crops, consequently a merciless warfare 
is waged against them by the farmers. For a set of the eggs of 
this species I am indebted to Mr. Joseph A. Hill, of ‘ Pine Rise,’ 
Kewell, Victoria, who obtained them, after carefully watching a 
pair of birds for some time in the vicinity, on September 15th, 
1887. They were deposited on the decaying wood, about two 
feet down the hollow limb of a Eucalyptus, at a height of thirty 
feet from the ground. The eggs are five in number for a sitting, 
pure white, oval in form, nearly equal in size at both ends, 
measuring as follows : — length (A) Mix 0’9 inch ; (B) 12x 092 
inch; (C) MG x 091 inch; (D) 117 x 09 inch; (E) 1-18x092 
inch.” (North, P.LS., N.S. IV., Vol. ii., 2nd Series, p. 985.) 
