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Show 1875.] MR. E. P. RAMSAY ON RALLINA TRICOLOR. 603 green ; on the sides of the breast, from under the wing, extending nearly to the flanks, is an oblong patch of bright yellow ; under tail-coverts and flanks bright green, tipped with verditer; bill, tarsi, and feet dark-horn colour. Total length 5 inches, wings from flexure 3f\, tarsi ^, tail 1 \ ; bill from cere along the culmen T 9 ff, width at base \. Female. The female differs in having the whole of the sides of the face, from the base of the upper mandible to the ear-coverts, of a bright verditer blue; the outer and lower portions of the ear-coverts deep cobalt blue, and in having no trace of red on these parts. The spot on forehead just in front of the cere is of a duller and more of an orange-red than in the male; the breast and abdomen have a slight tinge of yellowish green. Hab. Scrubs on coast-range near Cardwell, Rockingham Bay, Queensland. Young. In the not quite adult birds the breast and under surface of the body is of a paler green, and has a decided yellow tinge. The cheeks are of a paler blue, and void of the red patch so conspicuous in the adult male. Bill pale horn-colour, darker at the tip. Bemarks. This very prettily marked species is the second of the genns Cyclopsitta now known to inhabit Australia; it is closely allied, although quite distinct from C. coxeni, Gould, being much smaller and more beautifully and distinctly marked about the face and head. The specimens now gracing the collection of William Macleay, Esq., M.L.A., of Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, those in the Australian Museum, and in the Dobroyde-Mnseum collection, from which the above descriptions have been jointly taken, were procured by Mr. K. Broadbent, taxidermist, during a collecting-tour in the neighbourhood of Cardwell. They were found feeding on the fruit of the native fig-trees, which abound in the dense scrubs and brushes clothing the margins of creeks and rivers at the foot of the coast-range. It is doubtless the northern representative of Cyclopsitta coxeni, which, I believe, has not been met with north of the Brisbane district. 3. Description of the Eggs and Young of Rallina tricolor, from Rockingham Bay, Queensland. By E D W A R D P. RAMSAY, C.M.Z.S. [Received August 24, 1875.] I found this fine species of Rail by no means rare in the dense scrubs which fringe the rivers and creeks of the coast range near Rockingham Bay; but although tolerably plentiful, they are always very difficult to obtain, on account of the nature of the localities they frequent and their retiring disposition. They are seldom to be seen without lying in wait for them ; and not always then can one obtain a shot, except, perhaps, at such close quarters as would entirely destroy them. Thev move about more in the evenings and early morn, and at |