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 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES

 

THE BUDGERY GAAN PAROQUET.

This beautiful paroquet the smallest of its class in
New South Wales is no where to be seen under the Liverpool range of Mountains, over these ranges, and on the Sources of the Namoi River, this Paroquet is found in great numbers -

On the banks of the Maniella [Manilla?] River this bird is found, and on the Gwyder, Macintyre, Balonne, and Maronoa Rivers.

The food of this Paroquet are the seeds found on Box ridges, where it is most frequently found. The goolah [goola] grass seed [Panicum loevinode] is also a favorite [favourite] of this bird.

When caged the Canary or hemp seed is provided, This is a very delicate bird, seldom living more than two years domesticated.
This Paroquet is about the size of a Java Sparrows, Considerable smaller than an English house Sparrow, and its plumage is very beautiful - it excells [excels] every other bird in speaking distinctly - 
 
GREAT HEAT OF THE  ATMOSPHERE IN SYDNEY JAN 30th 1855 - EMPIRE

Yesterday was by several degrees the hottest day experienced this summer, At a few minutes after seven o'clock in morning the mercury attained 84° in the shade and 101 in the sun; at a quarter to nine A.M. it rose to 89° in the shade & 117° in the sun, at eleven o'clock, it stood for some time at 110° in the shade & 125° in the sun, but shortly after mid day, it rose three degrees in the shade & two degrees in the sun,
The heat was then so intense that many persons
were compelled to abandon their usual business associations, and every one who could manage to postpone his out door business did so, in hope of finding a cooler time for it during the day - At seven O'clock in the evening the thermometer fell to 90° and but a triffling [trifling] [indecipherable] occurred up to midnight - As no appearance of a break in the weather is apparent, we have reason to expect that to day will be as hot, if not hotter, than yesterday. Many of the old inhabitants of Sydney have assured us that they have never experienced hotter weather during their sojourn in the Colony.  Bush fires which have been raging for the last two days in the immediate neighbourhood, have doubtless added much to the intensity of the heat.

 

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