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PSITTACIDffi. 
This species breeds during the months of September, October, 
and November. 
Hab. Rockingham Bay, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, 
New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. (Ramsay .) 
PLATYCERCUS FLAVIVENTRIS, Temminck. 
Yellow-bellied Parrakeet. 
Oould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 417, p. 48. 
The Yellow-bellied Parrakeet is found throughout Tasmania, 
and the adjacent islands in Bass’s Straits, where it deposits its 
eggs, six or seven in number, on the decaying wood in the hole of 
a gum tree. Eggs white, oval, length (A) 1 '2 x0’91 inch; (B) 
M7 x 0-92 inch ; (C) 1-23 x 0-96 inch. 
The breeding season lasts from September until January. 
Hab. Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania. (Ramsay ) 
PLATYCERCUS PALLIDICEPS, Vigors. 
Pale-beaded Parrakeet. 
Oould, Handbk. Bds. Aust, Vol. i., sp., 419, p. 51. 
“ The eggs of the Moreton Bay Rosella are from three to five 
in number, white, rounded or oblong-oval in shape; length 1 inch 
x 0-88 inch to 1‘06 x 0 - 9 inch, they are laid in the hollow boughs 
of trees during the months of August to December.” (Ramsay, 
P.L.S., iV.S. W., Vol. vii., p. 53.) 
Hab. Port Denison, Dawson River, Wide Bay District, New 
South Wales, Interior. (Ramsay.) 
PLATYCERCUS EXIMIUS, Shaiv. 
Rose-bill Parrakeet. 
Oould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., VoL ii., sp. 422, p. 55. 
This bird is found breeding plentifully in New South Wales 
and Victoria ; it lays its eggs which are five to seven in number 
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