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rauroaA (Case II. No. 41, female; Case IX. No. 12, 
young bird.) 
This also is a migratory species, arriving in New Zealand 
about the end of September, spending the warm months and 
breeding there, and departing about the first week in 
January. Both this species and the preceding one are 
parasitic in their nidification; and both of them entrust 
the rearing of their young to the Grey Warbler, one of the 
smallest of the New-Zealand birds (see Nos. 27 and 29 in 
Case II.). 
Order PSITTACL 
Fam, PLATICEBCIDiE. 
Genus PLATYCERCUS. (Australia, New Zealand, 
New Guinea, and Polynesia.) 
1. Platycercus novas Zealand^, Sparrm. Red-fronted Par- 
rakeet. “ KakarikiA (Case II. Nos. 47, 48, and 49, 
male and female; also yellow-spotted variety, Case X. 
No. 12.) 
2. Platycercus aurxceps, Kuhl. Yellow-fronted Parrakeet. 
(Case II. Nos. 54 and 56, male and female, and Case X. 
No. 10.) 
3. Platycercus alpinus, Buller. Orange-fronted Parra¬ 
keet. (Case II. No. 55, male.) 
