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PSITTACtDiE. 
Genus LATHAMUS, Lesson. 
LATHAMUS DISCOLOR, Shaw. 
Swift Lorikeet. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vo] ii. sp. 443, p. 90. 
The Swift Lorikeet usually lays two white eggs, in the hollow 
of a dead branch of a Eucalypt. Specimens taken near Hobart, 
Tasmania, measure as follows:—length (A) 1 -05 x 087 inch; 
(B) l - 05 x 0 - 86 inch. 
This species breeds during the months of October, November, 
and December. 
Halt. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South 
Australia, Tasmania. {Ramsay.) 
Genus TRICHOGLOSSUS, Vigors and IIorsfield. 
TRICIIOGLOSSUS NOVAf-lIOLLANDIVE, Gmelin. 
(T. multicolor , Gmelin.) 
Blue-bellied Lorikeet. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 444, p. 93. 
This species lays its eggs two in number, on the decayed wood 
in a hole of a dead branch of a Eucalyptus. Two average 
specimens received from Mr. Geo. Barnard of the Dawson River, 
Queensland, are dull white, one specimen (A) being a true oval, 
the other (B), inclined to be somewhat pyriform in shape. Length 
(A) 1-1 x 0'90 inch; (B) I'll x 0-91 inch. 
The usual breeding season of this species is during October and 
the three following months, but Mr. J. A. Boyd found a nest on 
