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taken from the bottom of a hollow stump in which the female was 
captured while sitting, is white, and the shell smooth, and 
measures :—length 0’85 x 0'67 inch. Eggs usually five for 
a sitting. 
The breeding season commences in September and lasts the 
three following months. 
llab. New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania. 
(Ramsay.) 
EUPHEMA PULCHELLA, Shaw. 
Chestnut-shouldered Grass-Parrakeet. 
Gould, llandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 436, p. 77. 
This lovely species resorts to a hole in the branch of a tree or 
a fallen log to deposit its eggs, of either a Eucalyptus or 
Casuarina. The eggs are white, and four in number, a set taken 
by Mr. Percy Ramsay, at Macquarie Fields in August 1859, vary 
in form from round to oval and measure as follows :—length (A) 
0-8x0-71 inch; (B) 0-8 x0 - 7 inch, rounded; (C) 0-85x0-7 inch; 
(D) 0-88x0-72 inch, oval. 
The breeding season commences in August and continues the 
three following months. 
Hah. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, Interior, Victoria and South Australia. (Ramsay.) 
EUPHEMA ELEGANS, Gould. 
Elegant Grass-Parrakeet. 
Gould, llandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 433, p. 73. 
“The breeding season of this species is in September and 
October; the eggs being from four to seven in number, of a pure 
white, eleven lines long by eight and a-half lines broad.” ( Gould, 
llandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., p. 73.) 
