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PSITTACimE. 
four in number, white, and measure as follows :—length (A) 
0-88 x 075 inch ; (B) 09 xO-78 inch; (C) 0-84 x 0-73 inch ; (D) 
0 - 88 x 0 - 75 inch. 
Hah. New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia. 
(Ramsay.) 
PSEPHOTUS HiEMATONOTUS, Gould. 
Eed-rumped Parrakeet. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 431, p. 69. 
The Red-rumped Parrakeet is dispersed throughout New South 
Wales, Victoria, and South Australia, it is chiefly found in the 
belts of trees skirting the margins of rivers and creeks. This 
bird lays its eggs, which are white, upon the dry dust in a hole or 
spout usually of a Casuarina or Eucalyptus. A set of eggs taken by 
Mr. John Ramsay on the 2nd of September 1868, at Cardington on 
the Bell River, New South Wales, are four in number, varying 
in form from round to oval, and measure as follows :—length (A) 
082 x 0'82 inch, rounded ; (B) 0 - 95 x 08 inch ; (C) 092 x 078 
inch ; (D) 095 x 0‘78 inch. 
This species breeds during the months of September, October, 
and November, and is still found in great numbers on the Bell 
and Macquarie Rivers. 
Hah. Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and 
Clarence Rivers Districts, Now South Wales, Interior, Victoria 
and South Australia. (Ramsay.) 
Genus EUPHEMA, Wagler. 
EUPHEMA VENUSTA, Temminck. 
(E. chrysostoma, Kuhl.) 
Blue-banded Grass-Parrakeet. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 432, p. 71. 
This beautiful species is found breeding in the hollow branches 
of the Eucalyptus and other trees ; an average specimen of the eggs 
