. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Birds; Natural history; Oiseaux; Sciences naturelles. THE YELLOW-BELLIED rAlIEAKEET. 513 fi wniild fipiK'ivr to lie iiKirc numerous in tlio oa.^tcvn divisions ol" Australia in tlio Dunn- Iho sumnuT .1' l8:3f), it was in all tho apple-tree (Annophom) ll;iis (in tlie I pper Hunter as well s lu similar districts on the I'eel and otlior rivers which lldW nnrlhward. Alter the breeding season is over, it congregates in numerous flocks before taking its .Icpaituiv I have scieii the gi'ound .luite. covered by them while enga
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Birds; Natural history; Oiseaux; Sciences naturelles. THE YELLOW-BELLIED rAlIEAKEET. 513 fi wniild fipiK'ivr to lie iiKirc numerous in tlio oa.^tcvn divisions ol" Australia in tlio Dunn- Iho sumnuT .1' l8:3f), it was in all tho apple-tree (Annophom) ll;iis (in tlie I pper Hunter as well s lu similar districts on the I'eel and otlior rivers which lldW nnrlhward. Alter the breeding season is over, it congregates in numerous flocks before taking its .Icpaituiv I have scieii the gi'ound .luite. covered by them while engaged in procuriu" tnnd ; and it was not an unusual circumstance to see hundreds together in the dead liraiiclies of the gum-trees in th". " iiciniiliuurhood of water, a ])lenti- lul supply of which would ajipear to he essential to its existence ; hence Me may reasonably suppose tluit the interior of the country is IK it so stei'ile and inhospitable as is (iiilinarily imagiiu'd, and that it yet laayhe made available for the uses (if man. The Harle([uin Dronze- wiiiL;- and the Warbling Grass I'anakeet are also denizens of that part of the country, and e(|ually unable to exist without ; The head and throat of this sjioeies are yellow, and there is a patch of crimson on the r])im the heael there is a long, slender, painted crest, yellow at the base and grey at the tip, uiving the bird so curious an aspect that at first sight it ap- ]icai's either to be a cockatoo or a I'aiTakeet as the eye is directed t(i the crest or the general form. Tlie back and under portions of ihc body are brown, and a large ]iiiit (if the wings is white. Tlio central tail-leathers are brown, anil the rest grey. The female is distinguished from her mate liy a green tinge which pervades the yellow of the head and throat, and the numerous bars of yellow and dark blackish brown which cross the tail. The genus Platycercus, or "Wide-tailed i'arrakeets, to Mhieh the VeLL()\V-I&
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