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KALLID/E. 
The eggs are four in number ; and the nest, which is composed of 
sedges, grass, and aquatic plants, is placed close to the water’s 
edge, or upon any bunches of weeds or grass growing in the water 
which may be sufficiently strong enough to bear its weight. This 
Parra is tolerably abundant throughout the swampy regions 
which abound over the eastern portion of Queensland and north¬ 
eastern parts of New South Wales. I have obtained specimens 
as far south as the Clarence River in New South Wales, its most 
southern limit, and as far north as the Herbert River, in the 
Rockingham Bajj district. It is found most plentiful in the 
Rockhampton district wherever the swamps and lagoons occur ; 
the leaves of the gigantic Nymph <ua and Nelnmbium affording a safe 
retreat for this species. I know of few more interesting or more 
pleasing sights than a troop of this handsome Parra wandering 
among the bright blue and crimson blooms of the giant water-lilies 
which abound in almost every sheet of water of any extent in 
North-eastern Queensland.” (Ramsay, Ibis, 1865, Yol. i., p. 306, 
iid. 1867, Vol. iii., New Series, p. 417, pi. viii., fig. 3.) 
Count Salvadori states that the Parra from New Guinea is the 
true P. (jallinacea of Temminck, upon Dr. Ramsay pointing out 
distinction, Count Salvadori described the Australian species 
under the name of P. novce-hollandice. (See Salvad., Orn. Pap. et 
Mollucc. III., 308-9.) 
Sab. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Richmond and Clarence Rivors Districts, New South Wales. 
(Ramsay.) 
Genus HYPOT/ENIDIA, Reichenbach. 
IIYPOIVENIDIA PIIILIPPENSIS, Linncuus. 
Pectoral Rail. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Yol. ii., sp. 570, p. 334. 
The nest of this species, when built in swampy localities, is 
generally composed of the de'bris left from Hoods ; it is slightly 
