THE BIRDS OP COOLABAH AND BREWARRTNA— NORTH. 151 



Saw only a bird trapper's call-bird in confinement at Coola- 

 bali, but was informed by the owner, as well as by other people, 

 that this species was occasionally procui-ed in the district, but 

 was by no means common. 



Cacatua roseicapilla. 



Rose- breasted Cockatoo. 



Cacatua roseicapilla, Vieill., Nouv. Diet. d'Hist., xvii., p. 

 12 (1817) ; Gould, Handbk. Bds. Austr., ii., p. 8 (1865) ; 

 Salvad., Cat. Bds. Brit. Mas., xx., p. 132 (1891) ; North, 

 Nests and Eggs Austr. Bds., 2nd. ed., iii., {it. ii., p. 88 

 (1911). 



Cacatua eos, Gould, Bds. Austr., fob, v., pi. 4 (1848). 



The Rose-breasted Cockatoo or " Galah " as it is more 

 frequent called was occasionally seen singly, or in small flocks 

 at Coolabah ; several birds were observed perched on the tele- 

 graph wires opposite the hotel early one morning, but they 

 were more common on Willeroon, the adjoining Station. Vast 

 flocks, several hundreds in number, were observed feeding on 

 the ground on Cato Plains, near Brewarrina, and in the vicinity 

 of the Aboriginal Mission Station, on the Barwon River. 

 Neither at Coolabah, nor Brewarrina, were any of these 

 Cockatoos observed breeding. This species commits great 

 havoc in the grain-crops. When taken from the nesting place, 

 while young, it makes a remarkably interesting pet and a fine 

 talker. 



Calopsittacus nov.e-hollandi^ 



Cockatoo-Pai-rakeet. 



Psittaciis imv,:p-hoJIainli>p, Gmel., Syst. Nat., i., p. 328 (1788). 



Nynqjhicus noca'-JioIldiiditv, Gould, Bds. Austr., fob, v., pi. 45 

 (1848). 



Calopsitta novfp-JiolJinnJiii', Gould. Handbk. Bds. Austr., ii., p. 

 84 (1865). 



Calopsiftacii.'^ novce-holtioidliv, Salvad., Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., xx., 

 p. 135 (1891) ; North, Nests and Eggs Austr. Bds., 2nd. 

 ed., iii., pt. ii., p. 95 (1911). 



