The specimens from which my figures were taken were procured at Port Essington. Mr. Gilbert remarks, that “this species is abundant in all parts of the Cobourg Peninsula and the adjacent islands; and is an especial favourite with the natives, who carefully preserve the heads of all they kill for the purpose of ornamenting their persons, by slinging them to the arm a little above the elbow. It is generally seen in large flocks, feeding on the summits of the loftiest trees. Its flight is rapid in the extreme. Like the other _Trichoglossi_, its food consists of honey and the buds of flowers.” Of its nidification nothing is yet known. The sexes present little difference in appearance, and may be thus described:— Head and cheeks resplendent blue; throat and abdomen deep olive-green; chest crossed by a broad band of orange-red; a narrow band of the same colour across the occiput, below which band is a broader one of deep blue, the basal portion of the feathers being red; back, wings, tail and under tail-coverts grass-green; basal half of the inner webs of the primaries yellow; irides red, with a narrow ring of yellowish round the pupil; bill vermilion; tarsi silken green in front; inside of the feet and back of the tarsi ash-grey. The Plate represents a male and a female of the natural size. [Illustration: TRICHOGLOSSUS CHLOROLEPIDOTUS: _Jard. & Selb._ _J. Gould and H.C. Richter del et lith._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._ ] TRICHOGLOSSUS CHLOROLEPIDOTUS, _Jard. and Selb._ Scaly-breasted Lorikeet. _Psittacus chlorolepidotus_, Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. in Nov. Act., vol. x. p. 48. _Trichoglossus Matoni, Vig. and Horsf_. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 292. _Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus_, Jard. and Selb. Ill. Orn., vol. iii. pl. 110.—Wagl. Mon. Psitt. in Abhand., p. 550. The present Lorikeet is one of the four species of this genus inhabiting New South Wales, which portion of Australia may be regarded as its stronghold, for I have never even seen a skin from any of the other colonies; hence, like many other species, it is very local, confined as it were to certain limits, and those of small extent. To give any detailed account of its habits and mode of life would be merely repeating what I have said respecting the _Trichoglossus Swainsonii_, with which it frequently associates and even feeds on the same branch; it is, however, not so numerous as that species, nor so generally distributed over the face of the country. The brushes near the coast, studded here and there with enormous gums, towering high above every other tree by which they are surrounded, are the localities especially resorted to by it: in the interior of the country, on the contrary, where the _Trichoglossus Swainsonii_ is equally as numerous as in the neighbourhood of the coast, I never observed it.