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of the shell very fine, but lustreless. Length (A) 0-93 x 077 inch; 
(B) 087 x 0-79 inch ; (C) 094 x 08 inch. (Bohr. Mus. Coll.) 
Ilab. New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, 
West and South-West Australia. {Ramsay.) 
PSEPHOTUS PULCHERRIMUS, Gould. 
Beautiful Parrakeet. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 429, p. 67. 
The Beautiful Parrakeet is found breeding in the neighbourhood 
of Maryborough, Queensland, in the hollow branches of trees ; 
occasionally it resorts to a deserted burrow of Bacelo leachii, or of 
Halcyon macleayi in the nests of the Termites. Eggs white and 
three or four in number ; a set taken in September 1883 measure 
as follows : — length (A) 0'88x 0'73 inch ; (B) 0'86 x0'71 inch ; 
(C) 0-9 x 0-74 inch. 
Specimens from the Dawson River, taken by Mr. Geo. Barnard, 
measure as follows: — (A) 086 x 0'71 inch; (B) 087 x 0-7 inch; 
(C) 0-87 x 0-71 inch. 
Ilab. Port Denison, Wide Bay District, Dawson River, New 
South Wales. {Ramsay.) 
PSEPHOTUS MULTICOLOR, Temminck. 
Many-coloured Parrakeet. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Ausl., Vol. ii., sp. 430, p. 68. 
This bird is plentifully dispersed throughout the open forest 
country of the interior of New South Wales and South Australia, 
which may bo considered the stronghold of this species. It breeds 
like most of the other members of the genus, during the months 
of August, September, and October, in the hollow trunk or branch 
of a tree, usually of a Eucalyptus or Casuarina. A set of eggs 
taken by Mr. K. II. Bennett, on the 24th August 1884, are 
