PURPUREICEPHALUS. 
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in the hollow branch of a Eucalyptus. Eggs white, measuring as 
follows: — length (A) 1'08 x 0’9 inch ; (B) 1 -06 x 0’9 inch ; (C) 
1'05 x 087 inch ; (D) l - 03 x 085 inch. 
This species breeds during September and the three following 
months. 
Hab. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, New South Wales, Interior,’ Victoria and South 
Australia, Tasmania. (Ramsay.) 
PLATYCERCUS ICTEROTIS, Temminck. 
Yellow-cheeked Parrakeet. 
Oould, Handbk, Bds. Anst , Vol. ii., sp. 424, p. 58. 
“ The eggs, which are white and six or seven in number, are 
eleven lines long and nine and a-half lines broad; they are 
deposited in the holes of large trees without any nest.” (Gould, 
Handbk. Bds. Aunt., Vol. ii., p. 58.) 
I lab. South Australia, and West Australia. (Ramsay.) 
Genus PURPUREICEPHALUS, Bonaparte. 
PURPUREICEPHALUS PILEATUS, Vigors. 
(Plalycercus sy>urius, Ivuhl.) 
Red-capped Parrakeet. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 425, p. 60. 
“The Red-capped Parrakeet is an inhabitant of Western 
Australia, where it is rather numerously dispersed over the 
country about Ring George’s Sound. The breeding season extends 
over the months of October, November, and December. The 
hollow dead branch of a gum- or mahogany-tree is the place usually 
chosen by the female for the reception of her eggs, which are 
milk-white and from seven to nine in number, about an inch and 
