PEZOPORUS. 
265 
inch; (B) 068 x 0 - 59 inch ; (C) 067 x 06 inch ; (D) 0-68 x 0'6 
inch. 
A set in the Macleayan Museumgivethe following measurements: 
length (A) 0*71 x 0'6 inch; (B) 0-69 x 06 inch; (C) 0 7 x 0‘61 
inch ; (D) 0'7 x 0'59 inch ; (E) 0'68 x 0’61 inch. 
The breeding season commences in September and lasts till the 
end of December. 
Ilab. G ulf of Carpentaria, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria 
and South Australia, West and South-West Australia. (Ramsay ) 
Genus PEZOPORUS, Illiger. 
PEZOPORUS EORMOSUS, Latham. 
Ground-Parrakeet. 
Gould, Handbh. Bdts. Ausl., Vol. ii., sp. 441, p. 86. 
“ Dr. Ramsay informs me this bird used to breed freely in the 
neighbourhood of Appin in the long tussocky grass, during the 
mouths of September, October, and November, and that the young 
birds afforded excellent sport about the end of January. A nest 
before me is composed of rushes and wiry grass, bitten into suitable 
lengths, and bent round and interwoven here and there into a 
platform of about half an inch thick ; a piece of Lycopodium also 
boing worked into it. The diameter of the nest is 4-5 inches. 
Eggs white, three in number for a sitting, and smooth shelled, length 
(A) 1-03 x 0-85 inch ; (B) 1-01 x 0-85 inch ; (C) P06 x 0-85 inch. 
Dobr. Mus. Coll." (North, P.L.S., N.S.W., Vol. ii., 2nd Series, 
p. 410.) 
With the exception perhaps of Geopsitlacus occidentalis, it is the 
only Australian Parrot known that builds a nest. 
Hal. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, 
Tasmania, West and South-West Australia. (Ramsay.') 
