Its sole food is honey, gathered from the cups of the newly expanded blossoms of the _Eucalypti_, upon which it feeds to such an excess, that on suspending a fresh-shot specimen by the toes a large teaspoonful, at least, of liquid honey will flow from the mouth; hence, when we know this to be the natural food of the principal members of the group, how can it be expected that they can exist in captivity upon the hard seeds or farinaceous food so generally given as a substitute? A proper attention to the diet of these birds, by supplying them with food of a saccharine character, would doubtless be attended with the best results, and enable us to keep them as denizens of our cages and aviaries, as well as the other members of the family; and when it is considered that they are among the most elegant and beautiful of their tribe, I trust those who may have an opportunity will be induced to make a trial. The Scaly-breasted Lorikeet breeds in all the large _Eucalypti_ near Maitland on the Hunter, but I regret to say I did not procure its eggs, or any information respecting its nidification. The sexes are so closely alike as not to be outwardly distinguished. All the upper surface, wings and tail rich grass-green; a few feathers at the back of the neck and all the feathers of the under surface bright yellow, margined at the tip with a crescent of grass-green, giving the whole a fasciated appearance; under surface of the shoulder and base of the primaries and secondaries rich scarlet; bill beautiful blood-red, inclining to orange at the tip; cere and orbits olive; irides in some specimens scarlet with a circle of buff round the pupil, in others buffy yellow. The figures are of the natural size. [Illustration: TRICHOGLOSSUS VERSICOLOR: _Vig._ _J. Gould and H.C. Richter del^t._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._ ] TRICHOGLOSSUS VERSICOLOR, _Vig._ Varied Lorikeet. _Trichoglossus versicolor_, Vig. in Lear’s Ill. Psitt., pl. 36.—Selb. in Nat. Lib. Orn., vol. vi. Parrots, p. 157, pl. 21. _W̏e-ro-ole_, Aborigines of Port Essington. There is no other species of the genus _Trichoglossus_ yet discovered with which the present could be confounded; it is at once rendered conspicuously distinct from all its allies by the narrow stripe of yellow down the centre of the feathers of the upper and under surface; it will not therefore be necessary to enter into a minute description of its size and colour, particularly as the figures in the accompanying Plate are of the size of life, and as near the appearance of nature as it is possible to pourtray them.