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PSITTACIDiE. 
Sab. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South 
Australia, West and South-West Australia. (Ramsay ) 
EUPHEMA BOURKII, Gould. 
Bourke’s Grass-Parrakeet. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 438, p. 80. 
Bourke’s Grass Parrakeet is very sparingly distributed through¬ 
out the timbered back country of the interior of Now South Wales. 
It usually breeds in the hollow limbs of the Eucalyptus or 
Casuarina, where it deposits its eggs which are white, oval in 
form, and four in number on the decaying wood; an average 
specimen from a set taken by Mr. K. H. Bennett on the 20th of 
August 1884, measures 0'9 inch in length by 07 inch in breadth. 
The breeding season commences in August and continues 
during the three following months. 
Sab. New SouthWales, Interior,Victoria and South Australia. 
(Ramsay.) 
Genus MELOPSITTACUS, Gould. 
MELOPSITTACUS UNDULATUS, Shaw. 
Warbling Grass-Parrakeet. 
Gould, Sandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 439, p. 81. 
The Warbling Grass Parrakeet arrives in New South Wales 
and Victoria early in September to breed, and departs again in 
February, in some seasons it is seen in countless numbers covering 
the ground, where it obtains its food among the various grasses. 
It deposits its eggs, which are white and usually six in number, in 
the hollow branch of a tree. A set taken by Mr. W. I. Liscombe 
in September 1884, measure as follows :—length (A) 07 x 0-6 
